Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape

Coordinates: 48°46′33″N 16°46′30″E / 48.77583°N 16.77500°E / 48.77583; 16.77500
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Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape
Lednice Castle, Valtice Castle, Rendezvous Pavilion, one of Lednice Ponds, John's Castle, Rajsna Colonnade, Venetian fountain in Lednice Castle garden, view on Lednice Castle park with Minaret
LocationLednice and Valtice, Czech Republic
CriteriaCultural: (i), (ii), (iv)
Reference763
Inscription1996 (20th Session)
Area14,320 ha (35,400 acres)
Coordinates48°46′33″N 16°46′30″E / 48.77583°N 16.77500°E / 48.77583; 16.77500

The Lednice–Valtice Cultural Landscape (also Lednice–Valtice Area or Lednice–Valtice Complex, Czech: Lednicko-valtický areál) is a cultural-natural landscape complex of 283.09 square kilometres (109.30 sq mi) in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It comprises the municipalities of Lednice, Valtice and Hlohovec, and the rural area of Břeclav.

In 1996, the Lednice-Valtice Area was registered on the

Pálava Landscape Protected Area (Pálava Biosphere Reserve), a biosphere reserve registered by UNESCO several years before.[2] The close proximity of two cultural landscapes
protected by UNESCO is unique.

History

The

Gothic Revival style (then: "Old English style") between 1846 and 1858 by Prince Aloys II
.

17th–19th centuries

The

Treaty of Saint-Germain stipulated that the city of Feldsberg, which in 1910 was about 97% inhabited by German-speaking Lower Austrians, became part of Czechoslovakia
.

The Baroque and neo-Gothic architecture of the

chateaux are married with smaller buildings and a landscape that was fashioned according to the English principles of landscape architecture.[3]

In 1715 these two chateaux (castles) were connected by a 7 km (4.3 miles) long landscape allée and road, later renamed for the poet Petr Bezruč. The Lednice Ponds are situated between the town of Valtice and villages of Lednice and Hlohovec; as are the Mlýnský, Prostřední, Hlohovecký, and Nesyt Ponds. A substantial part of the cultural landscape complex is covered in pine forests, known as the "Pine−wood" (Boří les), and in areas adjacent to the Thaya River with riparian forests.[3]

20th century

In 1918 the region became part of new

Communist
regime did not support returning large estates to exiled aristocratic landowners.

After the Czechoslovakian Velvet Revolution in 1989, the Liechtenstein descendants again renewed legal attempts for restitution, which were denied by the Czech state, the present day owner of the properties.[4]

Features

The principal elements are:

  • Chateau Valtice (German : Schloss Feldsberg) and its contiguous town of Valtice
  • Lednice Castle (German : Schloss Eisgrub) and its contiguous village of Lednice
  • The village of Hlohovec

Pavilions and follies

St Hubert Chapel

In addition to the castles, there are many large to small residential pavilions located throughout the designed landscape, often serving as chateau or hunting lodges.[5]

  • The Colonnade − Rajsna (German: Reistna)
      — a Neoclassical colonnade on the top of a hill ridge above Valtice (like a gloriette) from the 1810s to 1820s
  • Belvedere
      — a belvedere landscape element.
  • Rendezvous (or Temple of Diana)
      — a hunting lodge in a form of a Neoclassical arch from the 1810s
  • St Hubert Chapel (Kaple svatého Huberta)
      — a Gothic Revival column structure from the 1850s dedicated to the patron saint of hunters, situated in the Pine wood
  • Border House (Hraniční zámeček)
      — a
    chateau built in the 1820s directly on the former (until 1920) borderline between Lower Austria and Moravia
Temple of the Three Graces
  • 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 the 1820s
  • Pond House (Rybniční zámeček)
      — at the shore of one of the Lednice Ponds
Nový dvůr
Pohansko

Preservation

The garden

follies and the conservatory of Lednice Park were listed in the 1998 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund, for their deteriorating condition resulting from insufficient financial resources.[6] The Fund had previously studied the preservation of Lednice and Valtice Castles, and after 1998 it helped fund restoration of the Valtice Rendezvous folly as a demonstration project with support from American Express.[7]

See also

Gallery

  • Lednice Castle
    Lednice Castle
  • Castle Greenhouse in Lednice
    Castle Greenhouse in Lednice
  • Interior of the greenhouse
    Interior of the greenhouse
  • From the Lednice Castle garden
    From the Lednice Castle garden
  • Lednice Castle Riding-Hall
    Lednice Castle
    Riding-Hall
  • The Prostřední (Middle) one of the Lednice Ponds
    The Prostřední (Middle) one of the Lednice Ponds
  • Valtice Castle
    Valtice Castle
  • Border House
    Border House
  • John's Castle
    John's Castle
  • Hunting Lodge
    Hunting Lodge

References

  1. ^ "Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  2. ^ "Pálava Nature Reserve | Mikulov.cz". mikulov.cz. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  3. ^ .
  4. ^ "The former Liechtenstein possessions of Lednice-Valtice". Minor Sights. September 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  5. ^ The term zámeček (German: Schlösschen, literally a small château) — is usually translated here as a "manor house" — or a "hunting lodge" (Czech: lovecký zámeček, German: Jagdschlösschen), if it served for hunting.
  6. ^ World Monuments Fund – Lednice and Valtice Cultural Landscape
  7. ^ Elaine Louie, New York Times, "Saving Endangered Art and Architecture," June 25, 1998.

Sources

  • 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).

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