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Monument · Czechia
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A Neoclassical hunting lodge roughly 2 km east of Lednice along the route to Janohrad. Now a protected monument in private ownership; only the adjacent asphalt path is accessible.
Built in 1805 and 1806 for Jan I of Liechtenstein, this one-story lodge stands at the edge of the Kančí obora game park, its ground floor built to house the gamekeeper who prepared the hunts. Nobility gathered on the first-floor loggia to watch parforce hunts run out on the meadow below, chases where hounds pursued deer and boar by scent rather than by gunfire. The architect, Josef Hardtmuth, designed it as one of the small pavilions that turned the Liechtenstein estate into the landscaped Lednice-Valtice grounds. After the Second World War the building had a quieter life, first as a foresters' bird observation station, then as an archaeological exhibition space run by the Regional Museum in Mikulov.
What you see
A single-story lodge on the wood's edge, its first-floor loggia raised on six Tuscan columns above a three-arched arcade, looking out over the open clearing in front of it.
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