Lednice ( Eisgrub in German) is a borough in the North-West of Břeclav in Moravie of the South, Tchéquie, famous for its Vignoble S, its castle and the park of this one, registered on the list of the World heritage and being next to that of Valtice.

History

The oldest hard copy mentioning Eisgrub goes up with 1222 and mentioned a fortress. In the middle of the 13th century, it becomes the property of the princes of Liechtenstein which has it until in 1945. Those gradually transform Lednice and the village close to Valtice into a complex of castles, gardens, madnesses and parks single in Europe with a surface of 200 km (either a surface more important than the only mountainous principality of Liechtenstein).

Monuments

Castle of Lednice

The initial Gothic fortress is replaced between 1544 and 1585 by a Renaissance palate surrounded by gardens. The castle is rebuilt at the 17th century in the taste baroque of which remain to us the stables in the western part of the palatine complex, works of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Between 1766 and 1772, the palate is rebuilt in the neo-classic taste in vogue then to be still rebuilt in 1815 in the Style Worsens and, for the last time, between 1846 and 1858 in a style Néo-gothique historicisant within J and J. Wingelmüller. Heidrich. This last rebuilding kept the existing plans, being satisfied to change modénature of the frontages and interior decoration. The castle integrates the parish church dedicated to St Jacques the Major one.

Park of Lednice

Like the contiguous palate, it undergoes many metamorphoses. Gardens Rebirth first of all, park of Italian inspiration baroque in the years 1730 with terraces and decorative sculptures, then in the English taste at the 19th century in the fields of the Fanti architect. The Dyje river is then collected to feed ponds and channels spanned by bridges. The last transformation into date takes place in 1884-1887 when, in the fields of the Michelli architect, in the taste Néo-baroque French with the mode, the floor regains the geometrical forms, the ancient sculptures, cut fountains, boxwood and boulingrins which could have been there two centuries before. The park also makes function of Arboretum with 200 species of trees which push there.

Minaret

This romantic, high construction, 60 meters goes back to 1797-1802 and is built in the Moorish taste within J.L. Hardtmuth.

Castle-Jan ( Janohrad )

This madness is built in 1807 within J.L. Hardtmuth: typically romantic, it represents a castle-extremely in ruins. It shelters a birdcage and an exposure of objects with character ornitologic and related to the Vénerie.

Relay of hunting

This traditional construction on a floor presents a frontage articulated on three arcades.

External bonds

• Photograph gallery

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