Soutok - Lány castle

The castle is the southernmost object of the Lednice-Valtice area and is located in a floodplain forest at the confluence of the Morava and Dyje rivers. It was built in 1810-12 by Prince Jan I. Josef Lichtenštejn. It served as a recreational and economic building. It was rebuilt at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and during the First Republic it was used to house a gamekeeper and as an occasional hunting lodge. After the war, the castle went to…