Abstract
Contrary to many other historical monuments and complexes, the archival resources relating to the imperial stud in Kladruby nad Labem are very well preserved. The 21st century brought a number of new discoveries, often of substantial importance.
The authors will present several new topics based on facts discovered in the past few years. These will include the first hundred years of the game reserve in Kladruby (until the Thirty Years' War) and the grand ideas about the planned reconstruction confronted with the reality in the 1720's and 1730's.
The most important topic will be the presentation of the changes in the landscape around Kladruby and Selmice one hundred years later - in the 1820's and 1830's (fields, grazing meadows, forests, and the river Elbe) as well as the transformation of the stud buildings following the design of Mauritz Jahn, the civil engineer for the region of Chrudim.