As a contribution into the discussion about baroque residences and baroque landscape, the manors of two Saxe-Lauenburg princesses are examined. Their residences have or at least used to have a composed surroundings within a town or landscape. The princesses were trying to represent their social power using distinctive symbols (mostly connected to catholicism) and to legitimate themselves in the pre-modern patriarchal society. Their building activity belongs to the most interesting in the baroque Bohemia.
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