Travel Colonnade

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The Rice Colonnade ( Kolonáda Reistna ) near Valtice Castle is a staffage building in the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Czech Republic .

Travel Colonnade
Oblique view

Geographical location

The rice colonnade stands on the highest hill of the Lednice-Valtice cultural landscape, the Reistna (also: Rajsna ). The building is also named after the location. The facility is located about 1.5 km southwest of Valtice Castle and about 500 m north of the state border with Austria . There are visual connections from here to Valtice Castle, to the Belvedere , about 2.5 km away, and to the minaret in the park of Lednice Castle , about 10 km away.

building

The rice colonnade is a combination of a centrally positioned triumphal arch and colonnades arranged on the side . An architectural unity is achieved via the connecting beams . In the corner pavilions, spiral stairs lead to the roof terrace .

It was built in memory of the builder's father and his brothers. This is indicated by inscriptions on the building and the four toga statues that have been placed, which represent the builder, Prince Johann I Joseph von Liechtenstein , his father, Prince Franz Josef I von Liechtenstein , and the builder's brothers, Prince Alois I von Liechtenstein and Philipp Josef , show. The latter three had already died when the Travel Colonnade was built. The building is also decorated with a series of allegorical reliefs. It represents a Liechtenstein family memorial.

On the north side there is the writing "DER SOHN DEM FATHER / THE BROTHER THE BROTHERS", on the south side the writing "THE MAN OF THE UNFORGETTABLE / THE ONLY SURVIVING SON".

The area around the travel colonnade was designed as a park.

history

The building was erected in parallel with the Temple of Diana and Pohansko Castle , south of Břeclav . The Reistenkolonnade was started by Joseph Hardtmuth from 1810 to 1817 and, after a construction interruption , was continued under Joseph Kornhäusel in 1813 and the shell was completed. The workshop of Joseph Klieber worked on the building decoration until 1823. Contrary to a traditional claim, the Reistenkolonnade was not built on the model of the Gloriette at Schönbrunn (1773–1775), but refers to architectural motifs from pre-revolutionary France .

After it was damaged in 1907, the building was rebuilt under Carl Weinbrenner , and then restored again around the turn of the millennium, as the picture decorations in particular were badly damaged. During the Cold War and until 1989, it served as an observation post for the Czechoslovak border troops .

literature

  • Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Přemysl Krejčiřík and Ondřej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012.

Web links

Commons : Kolonáda Reistna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ The current course of the state border between the Czech Republic and Austria was only determined in this section by the Treaty of Saint-Germain in 1919. Before that, Valtice (Feldsberg) belonged to Lower Austria .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Přemysl Krejčiřík and Ondřej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012, pp. 67, 180.
  2. ^ A b Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Přemysl Krejčiřík and Ondřej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012, p. 67.
  3. ↑ a b c Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Přemysl Krejčiřík and Ondřej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012, p. 68.
  4. ^ Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Přemysl Krejčiřík and Ondřej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012, p. 69.

Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 13.2 "  N , 16 ° 44 ′ 10.3"  E