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The Pond Chateau

The Pond Chateau

The pond chateau (or also the German Jägerhaus, Jagdschloß am Teiche or Teichsalett) is a chateau in the Lednice-Valtice area of the Classicist style. The building with a simple rectangular floor plan is situated on the northern slope of Prostřední rybník near the village of Lednice. The chateau is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic

The chateau was built by Prince Jan I. Josef of Liechtenstein. The construction project was designed by the Viennese architect Josef Kornhäusel. The building itself was built in the years 1814-1816. Initially, the chateau was used to house a gamekeeper, and the nobility also set out from there for occasional hunts of birds and fish. Later, the princely gardener and his family stayed here. After the Hydrobiological Station of the Brno Universities was founded in Lednice in 1922, the chateau was provided by Prince John II. from Liechtenstein for school purposes. A hydrobiological station was located in the building. Its activities were terminated here in 1971 and in December of the same year the chateau was handed over to the Faculty of Forestry of the University of Applied Sciences in Brno, which placed an ornithological waterfowl exposition here until 2001. The building is currently owned by Mendel University in Brno. In the years 2002–2008, reconstruction and restoration work on the exteriors and interiors of the building took place here under the care of the university in cooperation with the National Monuments Institute.