Neo-Gothic Orangery of Čechy pod Kosířem Château (zámecká oranžérie)

In 1768 the estate passed to Emanuel Tellez Menezes e Castro Silva-Tarouca, whose family kept it until 1945. The château, raised in the early eighteenth century as a four-wing Baroque building on the site of a water fortress, was remodelled in late Neoclassical style from 1839 to 1843, while the park, at first Baroque, became a landscape garden. Count August Alexander Silva-Tarouca had a neo-Gothic orangery built near the château in 1852-1853 to a design by Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann, a leading figure of Czech historicism. The painter Josef Mánes, who often stayed at the château, designed the coat of arms on the façade. The château's website adds that it replaced an older Baroque orangery, of which only a lawn remains.

After 1945 the state expropriated the estate. The Olomouc Region, owner since 2008, entrusted its management to the Olomouc Regional Museum, which began conservation in 2011. The orangery, whose floor and panes were damaged, was rebuilt in full in 2011-2012: the roof, eaten by dry rot, and the floor were replaced, and only the load-bearing structures of the perimeter glazing were saved. Czech Television presented it in October 2012 as a future rest area for park visitors, with a café and exhibitions. The château opened to the public on 2 April 2016. A 2021 report by the Faculty of Horticulture of Mendel University counts it among the fifteen structures judged "complete" in its survey, and among the neo-Gothic buildings dated to 1853.

The orangery is neo-Gothic; the sources also call the style "pseudo-Gothic". Its plan is rectangular, with corner pillars carrying decorative capitals; the main façade, largely glazed, is red according to a tourist guide. The entrance is a round-arched portal reached by four steps, whose frame runs up into a gable decorated with a dentil course and an arcade frieze; above it, a trefoil carries the arms of August Alexander and his wife Gizela, designed by Mánes. The roof has a single slope. The Mendel report's typology places it among the orangeries with a single glazed wall and no swan-neck cornice, its centre marked by the portal without being structurally separate from the rest of the façade.

The 2011-2012 restoration replaced the roof and the floor; only the load-bearing structures of the perimeter glazing could be kept, and the portal designed by Mánes, the most valuable element of the building, was preserved. The hot-water heating channel, out of use before the works, once kept a stable temperature for the exotic plants.

The orangery has kept its original function: citrus trees are grown in it and exotic plants spend the winter there, as Wikipedia and a tourist guide checked in 2026 both state. The château's rental page explains that it shelters the mobile greenery of the château gardens; the 2027 rental calendar offers no date between the second half of October and the first half of April, when the hall is occupied by the plants.

Photographs from 2022 uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, captioned "orangery", show lemon trees in flower and in fruit and an oleander in bloom. The rest of the year the building serves as a setting for ceremonies, receptions and performances, and a reception tent can be set up in front of the façade.

The orangery stands in the château park, near the Mánes pavilion. The park is open to all; the interior opens during events (ceremonies, receptions, performances, special days), some of them by reservation. A guided tour of the park, in good weather, takes in the Red Tower, a neo-Gothic lookout, and the Mánes pavilion. The château, open to the public since 2 April 2016 and closed from November to February, houses the museum of the films of Zdeněk and Jan Svěrák and an exhibition of Mánes drawings since 2019; a café opens during the château's hours. It combines with Olomouc, about fifteen kilometres away as the crow flies, where the Flora collection greenhouses stand.