The castle and the city of Nachod were probably founded in the 13th century by a knight Hron from the Naceraticu family. The stronghold was built near a trade route running near the Czech – Klodzko border and it had a very important function of a fortified gate.
On the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries the medieval castle was rebuilt by the Smiricky family into the renaissance residence. The last male descendant coming from this family was Albrecht Jan, who took part in peasant rebellions as one of thirty leaders and he also participated in defenestration of lords in 1618. The last owner coming from the Czech nobility was Adam Erdman Trcka from Lipa, who was a brother in law of Albrecht from Valdstein, a commander of the emperor army. Adam was a faithful ally of his relative fighting together with him until they were both killed in the town Chleb 25 February 1634. In the same year the castle changed its owner and became the property of an Italian count Ottavio Piccolomini de Arragon as a reward from the emperor Ferdinand II for his help in taking over the estate belonging to Valdstein. The Piccolomini family owned the Nachod estate until 1873. During their reign the castle got its today shape as a result of rebuilding it in the baroque and rococo style. In 1972 the castle and the surrounding area was bought by Piotr Biron, a voivode of Kuron and Zahan. After his death in 1800 the property was inherited by his oldest daughter Katerina Bedrisca Vilemina, the lady immortalized in the famous novel “Granny“ written by a Czech novelist Bożena Niemcova”. In 1842 the prince Jiri Vilem Schaumburg-Lippe bought the estate for 2 500 000 zloty for his second son Vilem Karl August, starting in this way o side line of the family. The German princes reigned in Nachod region until the end of the second world war. After the confiscation of the estate 21 June 1945 the castle has been the property of the Czech nation.pp