Márti blogja: Lednice

Ha az ember utólag blogol meg szuper élményeket (és aztán sunyi visszadátumozással amúgy elrejti ezt a tényt), sok mindent elfelejt, így a fényképnézegetés mellett utánaolvasás is szükséges a felelevenítéshez. Így bukkantam rá családi cseh nyaralásunk első állomásának, Lednice kastélyának honlapján erre az aranyos leírásra, és orvul el is loptam:

Lednice castle is a majestic, georgeous mansion, exactely the kind of a place you imagine, while listening to:“...once upon a time there was a magnificent castle...“ What you see during a tour in this castle is not original equipment. According to historical materials „it doesn´t correspond with its former splendour“. One can hardly imagine what it used to be like.

Landlords from Lichtenstein didn´t live in poverty. Majestic ground-floor spaces served as representative chambers, where guests and friends were invited. The first floor was furnished to live in – nowadays there is a separate sight-seeing tour „Knížecí apartmány“ (Princely apartments). The second floor, where children used to rule, is a picture gallery.

Lednice neighbourhood has always been popular among people. First farmers lived there four thousands years ago. Hand-in-hand with invention of money and the opportunity to show wealth, the original fortress became a castle. It was 17th century but it seems that owners sympatized with local prehistoric inhabitants, because they built an artificial cave with stalactites. Some made from a plaster, some ripped in Moravia carst. At the end of 17th century a ridding-hall was build by a project of a famous architecter J.B.Fischer from Erlach. The ridding-hall is nowadays the oldest well-preserved building of the castle.

At first the manor was in possession of House of Sirotci, but they weren´t skilled in handling so they lost their ownership quite fast. Lichtensteins got rich when they seized fortune of noblemen executed at Staroměstské Square after the battle at Bílá hora. Lichtensteinś fortune greatened, thanks to their skills in business activities and soon they gathered enough to build the unique castle. Bold plans of wealthy aristocratic families were crossed by French revolution. Panic-stricken aristocracy turned to dreamery and so it reflected in architecture. Family mansions were build to look medieval. This tendency is evident in all buildings of „Europian garden“. Lednice castle got its appearance in 1846 -1858. It was build-up, at that time, very modern English (so called Winsdor) Gothic.

At the end of World War 2 and following communistic nationalization a big part of original equipment suffered greatly. Lichtensteins took everything they could in 1943. The most beautiful portraits, valuable pieces of furniture, jewel boxes and trimmings ended far in Lichtenstein. Fortunately they didn´t take along massive furniture, cut up stairs or pull down wallpapers. Due to it we can admire amazing staircase, carved from one piece of wood as well as original Chinese wallpapers decorated with motives of flowers, birds and Chinese people, that we can find on walls of Chinese cabinet.

You can hardly believe, that you marvel at a summer mansion. Aristocracy used this monstrous fairy-taleish building just as a cottage. They came here in early spring , but for winter they returned to central site in Valtice. Despite of it, they had built in heating, luxury bathrooms, bedrooms, dinning rooms and ballrooms. Lichtensteins were proud of their numerous art collections and they displayed their trophies from Africa and Asia wherever it was possible. The Prayer tower became a cellar for oriental articles, the best items were placed in display cases of African and Chinese room. In 1996, Lednice has been enlisted in national heritage UNESCO, so it became worlds legacy.

So, if your dream-house is an amazing villa with a garden or you long for an easy life, full of wandering in nature, delicious banquets, or you just want more free time so few servant would be handy- don´t go to Lednice. You would die with envy.

Bár mi is szívesen élnénk egy ilyen palotában, azért megkockáztattuk, és mégiscsak megnéztük. Csütörtökön kívülről és az első útvonalat, pénteken kastélyparki piknik reggeli után a második útvonalat, majd elsétáltunk a minarethez és visszacsónakáztunk a kastélyhoz. Mindez képekben:

A birtok felülnézetből

A szolgálati épületeken keresztül közelítettük meg a célt

Anyuék, és ami a kastélyból belefért

Kápolna

Mária

Szemben egy másik kicsi kápolna

A kastély hátulról (szerintem)

A kastély oldalról, méretaránynak Apuval és velem, jobbra az üvegház

Az egyik híres lépcső, csavarok és egyéb rögzítés nélkül készült,

látogatók nem is mászhatják meg csak úgy

Türkiz szoba

Fogadóterem

És persze a könyvtár,

A szuperhíres egy tölgyfából faragott csigalépcsőjével

Részlet 1

Részlet 2

Részlet 3

A cseh trópusok :)

A kastély eleje (szerintem)

Innen már látszanak a tavak és a Minaret (ehhez is találtam sztorit, lopom is):

All of sudden, in the middle of Lednice gardens, a minaret appears as if by magic.Central Europe had always been lands of Christians and rather than holy war was familiar with fratricidal fights between Catholics and Protestants.

According to rumours, a big patron of arts Alois Josef I from Lichtenstein intended to build a church there, on the spot where the minaret stands today. Among vassals resistance rose about a location of the building and that made Alois angry. To show his authority, he let build a mosque with a minaret instead of a church. Such a magnificent constructional plan dropped down because of unstable ground, so typical for wolds of river Dyje. It all began and finished with the minaret. So the rumours say.

The historical version is less attractive. All around the castle we could find Chinese palaces, Turkish bath, Romanian obelisk, Swiss bridge... so why not Islamic minaret? Lichtensteins probably built it simply because they liked it. May be it didn’t even occured to them how many stories and “fairy tales” the minaret would be the cause of. Moresque architecture has never had an equivalent in Czech lands. It was a bold achievement from Josef Hardmuth, who designed it.

Anyway, the construction of the minaret began in 1797. The centre of the building is a tower, 59, 39 metres high, in whose upper gallery 302 stairs lead. Three other ring-like roofed galleries encircle the tower. What you see depends only on the height to that you can get.