Lednice
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| Lednice | |
| Location | Czech Republic |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Sites | |
| Name | Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape |
| UNESCO State Party | Czech Republic |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, ii, iv |
| UNESCO Site ID | 763 |
| Year of Listing | 1996 |
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Lednice
Lednice (; ) is a village in South Moravia 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).
Population development
| census of population | habitant altogether | ethnicity of habitant | ||
| year | German | Czechs | other | |
| 1793 | 1648 | - | - | - |
| 1836 | 1954 | - | - | - |
| 1869 | 2061 | - | - | - |
| 1880 | 2387 | 2182 | 158 | 47 |
| 1890 | 2280 | 2072 | 176 | 32 |
| 1900 | 2377 | 2246 | 99 | 32 |
| 1910 | 2395 | 2204 | 168 | 23 |
| 1921 | 2501 | 1828 | 522 | 134 |
| 1930 | 2441 | 1704 | 628 | 109 |
| 1939 | 2103 | - | - | - |
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