Lednice -- Valtice Cultural Landscape - Czech Republic - UNESCO World Heritage
At the end of the 18th century, the local manor lordship -- the House of Liechtenstein -- began to create a unique manmade landscape complex: The Lednice -- Valtice Area. During the 19th century, the Liechtenstein family continued transforming the area, which has since been called the Garden of Europe, into a large landscape park with two centres:
Valtice Castle (and contiguous town)
Lednice Castle (and contiguous village)
In 1715 these two localities were connected by the so-called Bezruč Avenue. There is also one more village - Hlohovec. Between Lednice, Valtice and Hlohovec, the Lednice Ponds (Lednické rybníky) are situated, together with Mlýnský, Prostřední, Hlohovecký and Nesyt Ponds. A substantial part of the complex is covered with pines called the Pine wood (Boří les), and partially with a riparian forest adjacent to the River Dyje.
Except for above mentioned, there are a lot of bigger or smaller pavilions scattered throughout the whole complex, often serving as hunting lodges.:[1]
Rajsna (German: Reistna, The Colonnade)
- a Classicist colonnade on the top of a hill ridge above Valtice (like a gloriette) from 1810s-1820s
The Colonnade in Valtice
Belvedere
Rendezvous (or Temple of Diana)
- a hunting lodge in a form of a Classicist arch from 1810s
St Hubert Chapel (Kaple svatého Huberta)
- a Neo-Gothic column structure from 1850s dedicated to the patron saint of hunters, situated in the Pine wood
Border House (Hraniční zámeček)
- a Classicist chateau built in 1820s directly on the former (until 1920) bordline between Lower Austria and Moravia
Temple of the Three Graces (Tři Grácie)
- a semicircle gallery with allegorical statues of Sciences and Muses and a statue of the Three Graces from 1820s
Pond House (Rybniční zámeček)
- ashore of one of the Lednice Ponds
Nový dvůr (German: Neuhof, New Farm) - a Classicist farm finished in 1809, originally used for sheep husbandry, nowadays for horse breeding
Apollo Temple (Apollónův chrám)
- a Classicist hunting lodge from 1810s, ashore of one of the Lednice Ponds
Hunting Lodge (Lovecký zámeček)
- a Classicist house from 1806
John's Castle (Janohrad)
- a Neo-Gothic artificial ruins (Czech: umělá zřícenina, German: künstliche Ruine) in style of a castle, finished in 1810
Minaret
- a Moorish Revival structure (62 m high) in the Lednice Castle garden (finished in 1804), it serves as an observation tower
Obelisk
- erected in memory of the peace treaty of Campo Formio (1798)
Pohansko
- an Empire-style hunting lodge finished after 1812, it houses an exhibition of Břeclav Town Museum:
close to the lodge there are both an important archaeological site of Great Moravian remains and reconstructed parts of the Czechoslovak border fortifications
Lány
- an Empire-style hunting lodge from the beginning of the 19th century
(Source Wikipedia)
Three Graces, Valtice, 2006
The Temple of Three Graces is in the middle of pine woods between Valtice and Lednice in Moravia. It is surrounded with statues of Muses in the alcoves of semicircular building. Nearby is St. Hubert Chapel and Rendezvous, Temple of Diana as a big arch. All these structures were in hunting areaa which belonged to the princes of Lichtenstein. I went to the woods by myself and met Jindra in Valtice where I had delicious suckling pig served on the wood board.
Chrám Tří Grácií je uprostřed borovicového lesa mezi Valticemi a Lednicí na Moravě. Krásné sousoší je zčásti obklopeno půlkruhovitou stavbou s výklenky, v nichž jsou sochy múz. Nedaleko Tří Grácií je kaple Sv. Huberta, patrona lovců a myslivců. Kus dál je masivní oblouk zvaný Rendezvous nebo Dianin chrám. Všechny tyto stavby náležely princům z Lichtensteinu. Na výlet jsem šel sám a v poledne se sešel s Jindrou v restauraci ve Valticích a dal si výborné grilované sele, které servírovali na prkénku s velkou dávkou cibule.
Lednice Travel
Lednice Travel - At the end of the 18th century, the local manor lordship -- the House of Liechtenstein -- began to create a unique manmade landscape complex: The Lednice -- Valtice Area. During the 19th century, the Liechtenstein family continued transforming the area, which has since been called the Garden of Europe, into a large landscape park with two centres:
Valtice Castle (and contiguous town)
Lednice Castle (and contiguous village)
In 1715 these two localities were connected by the so-called Bezruč Avenue. There is also one more village - Hlohovec. Between Lednice, Valtice and Hlohovec, the Lednice Ponds (Lednické rybníky) are situated, together with Mlýnský, Prostřední, Hlohovecký and Nesyt Ponds. A substantial part of the complex is covered with pines called the Pine wood (Boří les), and partially with a riparian forest adjacent to the River Dyje.
Except for above mentioned, there are a lot of bigger or smaller pavilions scattered throughout the whole complex, often serving as hunting lodges.:[1]
Rajsna (German: Reistna, The Colonnade)
- a Classicist colonnade on the top of a hill ridge above Valtice (like a gloriette) from 1810s-1820s
The Colonnade in Valtice
Belvedere
Rendezvous (or Temple of Diana)
- a hunting lodge in a form of a Classicist arch from 1810s
St Hubert Chapel (Kaple svatého Huberta)
- a Neo-Gothic column structure from 1850s dedicated to the patron saint of hunters, situated in the Pine wood
Border House (Hraniční zámeček)
- a Classicist chateau built in 1820s directly on the former (until 1920) bordline between Lower Austria and Moravia
Temple of the Three Graces (Tři Grácie)
- a semicircle gallery with allegorical statues of Sciences and Muses and a statue of the Three Graces from 1820s
Pond House (Rybniční zámeček)
- ashore of one of the Lednice Ponds
Nový dvůr (German: Neuhof, New Farm) - a Classicist farm finished in 1809, originally used for sheep husbandry, nowadays for horse breeding
Apollo Temple (Apollónův chrám)
- a Classicist hunting lodge from 1810s, ashore of one of the Lednice Ponds
Hunting Lodge (Lovecký zámeček)
- a Classicist house from 1806
Johns Castle (Janohrad)
- a Neo-Gothic artificial ruins (Czech: umělá zřícenina, German: künstliche Ruine) in style of a castle, finished in 1810
Minaret
- a Moorish Revival structure (62 m high) in the Lednice Castle garden (finished in 1804), it serves as an observation tower
Obelisk
- erected in memory of the peace treaty of Campo Formio (1798)
Pohansko
- an Empire-style hunting lodge finished after 1812, it houses an exhibition of Břeclav Town Museum:
close to the lodge there are both an important archaeological site of Great Moravian remains and reconstructed parts of the Czechoslovak border fortifications
Lány
- an Empire-style hunting lodge from the beginning of the 19th century
(Source Wikipedia)
Enjoy Your Lednice Travel!
Lednice Tours
Lednice Tours - At the end of the 18th century, the local manor lordship -- the House of Liechtenstein -- began to create a unique manmade landscape complex: The Lednice -- Valtice Area. During the 19th century, the Liechtenstein family continued transforming the area, which has since been called the Garden of Europe, into a large landscape park with two centres:
Valtice Castle (and contiguous town)
Lednice Castle (and contiguous village)
In 1715 these two localities were connected by the so-called Bezruč Avenue. There is also one more village - Hlohovec. Between Lednice, Valtice and Hlohovec, the Lednice Ponds (Lednické rybníky) are situated, together with Mlýnský, Prostřední, Hlohovecký and Nesyt Ponds. A substantial part of the complex is covered with pines called the Pine wood (Boří les), and partially with a riparian forest adjacent to the River Dyje.
Except for above mentioned, there are a lot of bigger or smaller pavilions scattered throughout the whole complex, often serving as hunting lodges.:[1]
Rajsna (German: Reistna, The Colonnade)
- a Classicist colonnade on the top of a hill ridge above Valtice (like a gloriette) from 1810s-1820s
The Colonnade in Valtice
Belvedere
Rendezvous (or Temple of Diana)
- a hunting lodge in a form of a Classicist arch from 1810s
St Hubert Chapel (Kaple svatého Huberta)
- a Neo-Gothic column structure from 1850s dedicated to the patron saint of hunters, situated in the Pine wood
Border House (Hraniční zámeček)
- a Classicist chateau built in 1820s directly on the former (until 1920) bordline between Lower Austria and Moravia
Temple of the Three Graces (Tři Grácie)
- a semicircle gallery with allegorical statues of Sciences and Muses and a statue of the Three Graces from 1820s
Pond House (Rybniční zámeček)
- ashore of one of the Lednice Ponds
Nový dvůr (German: Neuhof, New Farm) - a Classicist farm finished in 1809, originally used for sheep husbandry, nowadays for horse breeding
Apollo Temple (Apollónův chrám)
- a Classicist hunting lodge from 1810s, ashore of one of the Lednice Ponds
Hunting Lodge (Lovecký zámeček)
- a Classicist house from 1806
Johns Castle (Janohrad)
- a Neo-Gothic artificial ruins (Czech: umělá zřícenina, German: künstliche Ruine) in style of a castle, finished in 1810
Minaret
- a Moorish Revival structure (62 m high) in the Lednice Castle garden (finished in 1804), it serves as an observation tower
Obelisk
- erected in memory of the peace treaty of Campo Formio (1798)
Pohansko
- an Empire-style hunting lodge finished after 1812, it houses an exhibition of Břeclav Town Museum:
close to the lodge there are both an important archaeological site of Great Moravian remains and reconstructed parts of the Czechoslovak border fortifications
Lány
- an Empire-style hunting lodge from the beginning of the 19th century
(Source Wikipedia)
Enjoy Your Lednice Tours!