- Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape
Infobox World Heritage Site
WHS =Lednice -Valtice Cultural Landscape
State Party = CZE
Type = Cultural
Criteria = i, ii, iv
ID = 763
Region = Europe and North America
Year = 1996
Session = 20th
Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/763The
Lednice -Valtice Cultural Landscape (also Lednice-Valtice Area or Lednice-Valtice Complex, _cs. Lednicko-valtický areál) is a cultural-natural complex of 283,09 km² in theCzech Republic ,South Moravian Region , close toBřeclav andMikulov , next to another site registered byUNESCO -Pálava Landscape Protected Area .History and description
During the 18th and 19th centuries the area was transformed by local manor lordship - the
House of Liechtenstein - into some largelandscape 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) [The term "zámeček" ( _de. Schlösschen, literally a "small château") is here translated usually as a "(manor) house" - or a "hunting lodge" ( _cs. lovecký zámeček, _de. Jagdschlösschen), if it served for
hunting .] :* Rajsna (German: "Reistna", The Colonnade)
- a Classicistcolonnade on the top of a hill ridge aboveValtice (like agloriette ) from 1810s-1820s
* Belvedere
* Rendezvous (or Temple of Diana)
- a hunting lodge in a form of a Classicistarch from 1810s
* St Hubert Chapel ("Kaple svatého Huberta")
- aNeo-Gothic column structure from 1850s dedicated to the patron saint of hunters, situated in the Pine wood
* Border House ("Hraniční zámeček")
- a Classicistchateau built in 1820s directly on the former (until 1920) bordline betweenLower Austria andMoravia
* Temple of the Three Graces ("Tři Grácie")
- a semicircle gallery with allegorical statues of Sciences andMuses 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 Classicistfarm finished in 1809, originally used forsheep husbandry , nowadays forhorse 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")
- aNeo-Gothic "artificial ruins" ( _cs. umělá zřícenina, _de. künstliche Ruine) in style of acastle , finished in 1810
* Minaret
- aMoorish Revival structure (62 m high) in the Lednice Castle garden (finished in 1804), it serves as anobservation tower
* Obelisk
- erected in memory of the peacetreaty of Campo Formio (1798)
* Pohansko
- an Empire-style hunting lodge finished after 1812, it houses an exhibition ofBřeclav Town Museum:
close to the lodge there are both an important archaeological site ofGreat Moravia n remains and reconstructed parts of theCzechoslovak border fortifications
* Lány
- an Empire-style hunting lodge from the beginning of the 19th centuryPhotogallery
Notes
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).See also
*
Lednice
*Valtice
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