Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape
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| Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape* | |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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| State Party |  Czech Republic |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, ii, iv |
| Reference | 763 |
| Region† | Europe and North America |
| Inscription history | |
| Inscription | 1996 (20th Session) |
| * Name as inscribed on World Heritage List. † Region as classified by UNESCO. |
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The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape (also Lednice-Valtice Area or Lednice-Valtice Complex, Czech: Lednicko-valtický areál) is a cultural-natural complex of 283,09 km² in the Czech Republic, South Moravian Region, close to Břeclav and Mikulov, next to another site registered by UNESCO - Pálava Landscape Protected Area.
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[edit] History and description
During the 18th and 19th centuries the area was transformed by local manor lordship - the House of Liechtenstein - into some large landscape park with two centres:
- Valtice Castle (and contiguous town)
- Lednice Castle (and contiguous village)
These two localities are connected by so called Bezruč Avenue (from 1715). There are also one more village - Hlohovec. Between Lednice, Valtice and Hlohovec the Lednice Ponds (Lednické rybníky) are situated (Mlýnský, Prostřední, Hlohovecký and Nesyt Ponds). A substantial part of the complex is covered with 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 (they often served 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 - 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
[edit] Photogallery
 Lednice Castle |
 Castle Greenhouse in Lednice |
 Valtice Castle |
 St. Mary parish church in Valtice |
 Rajsna |
 Rendezvous |
 St Hubert Chapel |
 John´s Castle |
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Kordiovský, Emil - Klanicová Evženie (eds.), Město Břeclav, Muzejní a vlastivědná společnost, Brno (2001).
- Památkový ústav v Brně: text on the reverse of a tourist map, Shocart, Zlín (1998).
[edit] See also
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