Chateau Lednice Chapel / Zámecká kaple Lednice (South Moravia)
N 48° 48.078 E 016° 48.317
33U E 632564 N 5406939
Beautiful neo-Gothic Chateau chapel in Lednice, part of vast architectural and park complex of Lednice Chateau, serves as a parish church of Lednice Roman Catholic parish from 1731.
Waymark Code: WMRVVR
Location: Jihomoravský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 08/09/2016
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Beautiful neo-Gothic Chateau chapel in Lednice, part of vast architectural and park complex of Lednice Chateau, serves as a parish church of Lednice Roman Catholic parish from 1731.
Old Lednice parish church of St. James the Greater, mentioned in the 15th century as damaged during Hussite wars, was reconstructed in late-Gothic style in 1495. The church was too small, so a new church was erected at the Chateau in 1579. Also this church was finally pulled down and replaced by a new Classicist chateau chapel in 1731. This chapel was finally reshaped in neo-Gothic style during the extensive Chateau reconstruction in 1846–1858 by Viennese architect Georg Wingelmüller and his assistant Johann Heidrich.
Chateau Lednice (Zámek Lednice) architectural and park complex, the key part of the UNECSO World heritage site "Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape", belongs among the most beautiful examples of the synthesis of architecture and nature in Europe.