Lednice

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name = Lednice
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| image_caption = Lednice Castle

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region = South Moravia | region_type = Region
district = Břeclav | district_type = District
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elevation = 173
lat_d = 48| lat_m = 47| lat_s = 59| lat_NS = N
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area = 31.27 | area_round = 2
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population = 2328 | population_as_of = 2005
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established = 1212 | established_type = First mentioned
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mayor = Libor Kabát
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postal_code = 691 44
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whs_name = Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape
whs_year = 1996
whs_number = 763
whs_region = 4
whs_criteria = i, ii, iv
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website = [http://www.lednice.org/index_english_uk.htm www.lednice.org]
commons = Lednice
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Lednice (IPA2|ˈlɛdɲɪtsɛ, German name: "Eisgrub") is a village in the Czech Republic. In 1996 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List (together with the twin manor of Valtice/Feldsberg) as "an exceptional example of the designed landscape that evolved in the Enlightenment and afterwards under the care of a single family." It contains a palace and the largest park in the country, which covers 200 km².

Since Lednice/Eisgrub first passed into the hands of the House of Liechtenstein in the mid-13th century, its fortunes had been tied inseparably to those of that noble family. The palace of Eisgrub/Lednice began its life as a Renaissance villa; in the 17th century it became a summer residence of the ruling Princes of Liechtenstein. The estate house — designed and furbished by baroque architects Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Domenico Martinelli, and Anton Johan Ospel — proclaimed rural luxury on the grandest scale. In 1846-58 it was extensively rebuilt in a Neo-Gothic style under the supervision of Georg Wingelmüller.

The surrounding park is laid out in an English garden style and contains a range of Romantic follies by Joseph Hardtmuth, including the artificial ruins of a medieval castle on the bank of the Thaya/Dyje River (1801) and a solitary sixty-metre minaret, reputedly the tallest outside the Muslim world at the time of its construction (1797-1804).

See also

* Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape

References

* [http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=763 World Heritage Site]
* [http://www.lednice.cz Official website]
* [http://www.zamky-hrady.cz/1/lednice-e.htm Photographs of Lednice]
* [http://virtualtravel.cz/czech/galeries.php?g=20&l=EN&t= Lednice Fullscreen QTVR virtual tour]