The name of the chapel is a reference to a nobleman named Hubertus who lived in Aquitaine at the turn of the 8th century. He lived a very profligate life, until, one day when on a hunt, he encountered a stag with a golden cross between its antlers. A revelation came to him that day and he turned to God.
Since that time, St. Hubertus has been the patron saint of hunters and marksmen. And that is why a chapel devoted to him couldn’t have been missed out in the Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape. Its appearance is deceptive – even though it looks like a Gothic structure, it is actually the newest of all the buildings in the area having only been completed in 1855. Great attention was paid to the details in order to give it the look of great age, including fictitious stonemason’s marks on some of the structure’s sandstone blocks.
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