The Tikveš Castle complex has changed many owners throughout its history. Each of them has left an indelible mark on its natural, historical, and cultural heritage.

Numerous rulers, presidents and their guests walked and hunted in the Tikveš forests. Hidden from the public view, it was a hunting center known on a European and world scale.

At the beginning of the 18th century, after the expulsion of the Turks, the manor of Belje was established. Until his death in 1737, the first owner was the famous Austrian military leader Prince Eugene of Savoy. After his death, by a grant from Empress Maria Theresa in 1780 the complex is managed by many members of the Teschen line of Habsburgs, who are also listed as the last owners of the Belje estate.

Old photographs are witnesses of country life, landscape architecture, ethnology of the manor. They were filmed by Isabelle Teschen, who often stayed here with her husband, Archduke Friedrich Habsburg.

After the end of the Great War, i.e., the First World War in 1918, the hunting complex was partially destroyed and rebuilt on the initiative of the King of SHS Aleksandar Karađorđević, and then received the status of a court hunting ground. The Tikveš forests are a large and rich treasure trove of biodiversity, and this is one of the reasons why in the period from 1941 to 1944, Prince Albrecht Habsburg, who managed the complex at the time, founded the Albertina Biological Station.

After the end of the Second World War in 1948, the area was managed by the State Property Belje, and in the 1960s by the Deer Hunting and Forestry.

The President of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, often stayed at his hunting residence and hosted many statesmen and guests. In the early 90's and just before the start of the Homeland War, the complex was devastated, and the infrastructure destroyed.

It has been owned by the Republic of Croatia since 1991. The Tikveš castle complex is protected by a Decision of the Conservation Department in Osijek. By the decision of the Government of the Republic of Croatia from 2000, the complex was given for use and management to the Public Institution Nature Park Kopački rit.

The complex of the Tikveš Castle, which is comfortably and naturally located in the old Tikveš oak forests, is an inexhaustible treasure of many legends and stories of our expert guides.