In the mid-13th century, it was passed into the hands of the House of Liechtenstein and its fortunes had been tied inseparably to the members of this noble family.

Lednice is the terminus of the short Břeclav–Lednice railway line that operates only on weekends from April to October.

The line is operated with old rolling stock - steam engine pulled trains or diesel cars.

The estate house, designed and furbished by baroque architects Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Domenico Martinelli, and Anton Johan Ospel, proclaimed rural luxury on the grandest scale.

[4] The surrounding park is laid out in an English garden style and contains a range of Romantic follies by Joseph Hardtmuth, including the solitary 60 metres (200 ft) high minaret from 1802, which is the tallest outside the Muslim world.