The territory of the former Kladská hunting ground in the highest parts of the Slavkov Forest is becoming a new landscape monument zone in the Karlovy Vary Region. The decision was made by the Ministry of Culture with regard to the high cultural, historical and natural values that this area exhibits.
The Kladská Landscape Monument Zone was declared to protect the cultural landscape, which still retains the character of a hunting ground, the tradition of which dates back to the 1970s without interruption.
The subject of protection in the new landscape monument zone is mainly the area of the former Kladská hunting ground and the unique set of historic architecture in Swiss-Alpine style from the 1870s. The hunting tradition has been developed in Kladská since 1873 by the new owners of the estate from the Schönburg-Waldenburg family, who gradually built the second largest deer hunting ground in Bohemia, as well as a unique set of historic architecture in the Swiss-Alpine style. Prince Otto Sigismund Schönburg-Waldenburg (1866–1936) even made Kladská the center of his estate, died here in 1936 and was buried in a tomb near a hunting lodge. His widow lived here until 1945, when the property was confiscated.
The most important part of the area is a hunting lodge built in 1877–1878. The inspiration for its construction came from the exhibits presented at the ethnographic part of the World's Fair in Vienna in 1873. South of the chateau is the U Tetřeva restaurant, a popular destination for spa guests from Mariánské Lázně since the 1880s. The immediate vicinity of the hunting lodge was arranged as a romantic park connected to extensive peat bogs with the water surface of the pond. The abundant representation of exotic trees gives the whole space the look of an arboretum.
The subject of protection in the new landscape monument zone is mainly the area of the former Kladská hunting ground and the unique set of historic architecture in Swiss-Alpine style from the 1870s. The hunting tradition has been developed in Kladská since 1873 by the new owners of the estate from the Schönburg-Waldenburg family, who gradually built the second largest deer hunting ground in Bohemia, as well as a unique set of historic architecture in the Swiss-Alpine style. Prince Otto Sigismund Schönburg-Waldenburg (1866–1936) even made Kladská the center of his estate, died here in 1936 and was buried in a tomb near a hunting lodge. His widow lived here until 1945, when the property was confiscated.
The most important part of the area is a hunting lodge built in 1877–1878. The inspiration for its construction came from the exhibits presented at the ethnographic part of the World's Fair in Vienna in 1873. South of the chateau is the U Tetřeva restaurant, a popular destination for spa guests from Mariánské Lázně since the 1880s. The immediate vicinity of the hunting lodge was arranged as a romantic park connected to extensive peat bogs with the water surface of the pond. The abundant representation of exotic trees gives the whole space the look of an arboretum.