 The castle was confiscated by the Nazi regime and later the Communist government, but was restituted to the Lobkowicz family in the early 1990s.Střekov Castle is divided into two sections connected by an arched bridge spanning a natural moat—an unusual style for the 14th century, when it was first built.The castle’s semiround bastions, inspired by French architecture, are possibly the first example of that type of defensive design in Bohemia.