Under communism the château was state property with no obvious purpose, and it was used the way such buildings usually were: a school in one part, agricultural offices and stores in the rest. Buildings survive that badly — heating, damp and forty years of alterations do more damage than a siege does in a week. Restoration work began in 1974 and moved slowly. Meanwhile the border a few hundred metres away stayed open, because Hodonín was still in the same country: people crossed to work, and families on the two banks went on marrying each other exactly as before.Za komunizmu bol zámok štátnym majetkom bez jasného využitia a dopadol tak, ako také budovy zvyčajne dopadli: v jednej časti škola, vo zvyšku poľnohospodárske kancelárie a sklady. Stavby to znášajú zle — kúrenie, vlhkosť a štyridsať rokov prestavieb narobia viac škody ako obliehanie za týždeň. Obnova sa začala v roku 1974 a postupovala pomaly. Hranica pár sto metrov odtiaľto zostávala otvorená, lebo Hodonín bol stále v tej istej krajine: chodilo sa cezeň do práce a rodiny na oboch brehoch sa naďalej medzi sebou ženili a vydávali presne ako predtým.
