Landscape for Breeding and Training of Ceremonial Carriage Horses at Kladruby nad Labem
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How it came to be
Kladruby nad Labem lies on the flood plain of the Elbe (Labe) and is first recorded in 1295. In the 1560s the estate passed to the Habsburgs, and from 1579, under Emperor Rudolf II, it held the status of Imperial Court Stud Farm. Since then it has been used to breed and train horses for pulling ceremonial carriages.
Until the late 17th century the stud bred Spanish horses. Under Emperor Leopold I heavier Neapolitan and other Italian stallions were brought in and crossed with Spanish mares, and by the early 18th century a new breed was fixed: the Kladruber, a gala carriage horse strong enough to draw heavy state coaches. A fire in 1757 forced the horses out to other imperial studs, and the farm and its landscape took their present form only in a renovation of the first half of the 19th century.
New stables and barns went up between 1820 and 1830, along with tree-lined avenues and the farmsteads of Františkov and Josefov, and the pastures were laid out as a grid divided by rows of trees. Around 1890 the riverside forest was turned into the landscaped Mošnice Park. After Austria-Hungary fell in 1918 the stud became state property. The 1,310 ha landscape was inscribed in 2019.
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