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The House at the Minute ( Dům U Minuty ) is house number 3 on the Old Town Square in Prague between the Old Town Hall and the House of the Golden Horn ( Dům U Zlatého rohu ). It is protected as a cultural monument.
history
The house was built as a late Gothic new building in the first half of the 15th century. It was quite small with a small yard and had two floors. In 1430 part of the neighboring house was attached to it. Before 1564 a lower third floor with a bezel was added. The sgraffito decorations were created in two phases, before 1600 and before 1615. They were removed in the course of a baroque transformation and restored in the 1920s. They show biblical episodes, scenes from Renaissance life and mythical images from ancient Greece.
The house served as a pharmacy. Franz Kafka lived in this house with his parents from 1889 to 1896, and all of his sisters were born here.
credentials
- ↑ House U Minuty Czech Heritage Office
literature
- VLČEK, Pavel a kol .: Umělecké památky Prahy. Staré Město - Josefov . Praha: Academia, 1996: pp. 149-150. ISBN 80-200-0563-3
Web links
- Haus zur Minute , Prague's tourist portal, accessed on November 15, 2019.
- at-the-minute , kralovskacest.cz (English), accessed on November 15, 2019.
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 12.3 " N , 14 ° 25 ′ 12" E