Mikulov and surrounding

The Hunting Lodge

The Hunting Lodge

is one of the small buildings in the Lednice-Valtice area. The Classicist chateau stands on the way from Lednice to Janohrad and to Kančí obory about 2 km east of Lednice. It was built between 1805 and 1806 according to the design of Josef Hardmuth. The chateau is a free-standing two-storey building, on the first floor a portico delimited by six Tuscan columns on prismatic pedestals connected by a conical balustrade, on which a low roof rests. Below it, on the ground floor, there is a three-axis semicircular arched arcade.

The building served as a hunting lodge with the hunter's apartment on the ground floor and from the terrace allowed the manor to watch parfors hunts held in the meadow in front of the hunting lodge. The adjoining octagonal saloon, accessible through a French window, provided an occasional shelter for hunters to serve refreshments.

After 1945, the building belonged to the Regional Center for State Monument Care in Brno and served as an ornithological observatory. After 1990, it was sold to a private owner.