Belvedere (Valtice)
The Belvedere in the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is one of the staffage buildings in the vicinity of the Valtice Castle and is part of the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Geographical location
The Belvedere is located on a wooded hill west of the avenue that connects the Valtice and Lednice castles , near the Valtice Castle in the Czech Republic .
building
The Belvedere was built from 1802 to 1806 by the architect Joseph Hardtmuth for Prince Alois I of Liechtenstein . The interior was painted by the decorative painter Joseph Langlöffel from Vienna .
In front of the building is an oval courtyard . The Belvedere is a two-wing complex with a two-storey, octagonal, three-axis central pavilion. Its central hall is vaulted with a dome. The two wings each have five axes and are single-storey. Aviaries were attached to the side of the building . On both sides of the building, in the central axis, a view opens up into visual lanes that cut through the surrounding forest.
history
Prince Alois I bought the building site to build a pheasantry here. The Belvedere became their central building, but was not completed until after the Prince's death († 1805) in 1806. The interiors were mainly used as apartments for stately officials. The exterior design, especially the surrounding park, wasn't even completed until the second decade of the 19th century.
At the end of the 19th century, Raimund Stillfried von Rathenitz had an apartment and a studio here. In 1894 the building burned down partially, with the painting being badly damaged. The restoration lasted until 1929. The central hall was converted into a “Chinese Cabinet”, in which porcelain was exhibited, but also draped silk wallpaper that came from the Chinese pavilion in the park of Lednice Castle , which was demolished in 1882 , but originally from Versailles . In the course of the first land reform, the House of Liechtenstein also had to give up the Belvedere.
After 1945 the building was completely misused and served as a grain store and laboratory for the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . Restoration of the wall paintings began in the 1960s. The entire building has been partially restored since the 1990s.
literature
- Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Přemysl Krejčiřík and Ondřej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Přemysl Krejčiřík and Ondřej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012, p. 61.
- ↑ a b c Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Přemysl Krejčiřík and Ondřej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012, p. 63.
Heritage: Old Town Prague (1992) | Old Town of Český Krumlov (1992) | Old town of Telč (1992) | Zelená Hora pilgrimage church (1994) | Old town of Kutná Hora with the Cathedral of St. Barbara and St. Mary's Church in Sedlec (1995) | Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape (1996) | Historic village of Holašovice (1998) | Kroměříž Castle and Park (1998) | Litomyšl Castle (1999) | Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc (2000) | Villa Tugendhat (2001) | Jewish Quarter and Basilica of St. Prokop in Třebíč (2003) | Kladruby nad Labem (2019) | Ore Mountains / Krušnohoří Mining Region (2019)
Bítov Castle | Boskovice Castle | Boskovice Castle | Bučovice Castle | Holštejn Castle | Janův Hrad | Jevišovice Old Castle | Jevišovice New Castle | Lednice Castle | Lysice Castle | Mikulov Castle | Milotice Castle | Moravský Krumlov Castle | Pernštejn Castle | Rájec nad Svitavou Castle | Slavkov Castle | Špilberk fortress | Uherčice Castle | Valtice Castle | Veveří Castle | Vranov nad Dyjí Castle
Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 7.1 " N , 16 ° 45 ′ 41.6" E