A court in the Czech Republic has rejected the return of several castles and extensive property to the Princely House of Liechtenstein.
This was justified with the inviolability of the so-called Benes decrees, as reported by the CTK agency on Friday.
The decrees of the then Czechoslovak President Edvard Benes served as the basis for the expropriation and expulsion of around three million Germans after the Second World War.
The Foundation of the Liechtenstein Princely Family argues that Prince Franz Josef II, who ruled at the time, was not German.
In the Czech Republic, it is expected that the decision of the district court in Breclav will be appealed.
The legal dispute concerns, among other things, the Lednice and Valtice castles in the South Moravian region.
As part of the surrounding cultural landscape, which includes the former Liechtenstein dominions, they have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.
According to the National Monuments Administration (NPU), 218,000 people visited Lednice Castle, which was rebuilt in the 19th century in the neo-Gothic style, in the last summer season.