Kostelní náměstí 28

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The house on the church square

The house Kostelní náměstí 28 in Prachatice ( German Prachatitz ), a town in the Jihočeský kraj (South Bohemia) region in the Czech Republic , is a listed town house ( Czech měšťanský dům) from the Renaissance period . It is dated to the middle of the 16th century.

location

The house is on the east side of the church square (Kostelní náměstí), between the Pisek Gate and the Heydl House (Heydlův dům, Kostelní náměstí 29). The neighboring buildings are also cultural monuments and part of the monument zone. The numbers "28" and "29" are conscription numbers (číslo popisné) .

History and description

The house was built in the middle of the 16th century and remodeled in the 19th century. The sgraffiti were restored in 1913 and 1992. The building has three floors and four window axes . The ground floor and first floor are partially vaulted . The west facade is completed by a parapet with a round arch and six battlements. An underlying niche for a saint figure is empty. The house shares a hipped roof with the neighboring building . Like this one, it is richly adorned with sgraffiti. They show biblical, figurative, floral and heraldic motifs. This includes a scene from the Bible with Samson's fight with the lion on the top floor . To the right of it is a German inscription in a sgraffito with an allegorical female figure representing virtue or truth:

Inscription from 1557

"DISTEL VND DOREN STEO
MEN SER VALSCHEN ZV
NGEN NOR L HERE
I WANT TO LIKE SONGS IN DISTEL
VND DOREN BADEN AI (?) WITH
VALSCHEN ZVNGEN
BLADEN 1557."

Thistles and thorns sting very much, false tongues even more. [But] I would rather bathe in thistles and thorns than be laden with false tongues. 1557 . The investigation in 1992 revealed twenty layers of paint on the facade. The lower section of the facade was not to reconstruct and display today in graffiti executed rustication .

At Heydl-Haus No. 28, however, a battle between Heracles and Centaurs and other opponents is shown. A procession of Bacchus can be seen above.

The two buildings were placed under protection as a cultural monument on May 3, 1958, and added to the area of ​​the urban monument reserve of the Prachatic city center on October 1, 1981. Rear extensions are not listed.

literature

  • Baedeker Czech Republic. 6th edition, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-8297-1474-7 , p. 163.
  • Gabriela Žabková: 3.6.2.2 Dům č.p. 28 . In: Renesanční nástěnná malba a sgrafito na fasádách domů v Prachaticích. Renaissance mural paintings and sgraffiti on the facades in town Prachatice. Diploma thesis, Prague 2011 (Czech with English abstract). S. 150-158, online at: is.uni.cz ... .

Web links

Commons : Kostelní náměstí 28  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Měšťanský dům (Catalog No. 1000147944) ÚSKP 36108 / 3-3468 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
  2. ↑ a b Gabriela Žabková 2011. pp. 150f.
  3. ↑ a b Gabriela Žabková 2011. pp. 154–157.
  4. ↑ Gabriela Žabková 2011, p. 159.
  5. ↑ Prachatice (catalog number 1000084239) ÚSKP 1041 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '48.4 "  N , 13 ° 59' 57.7"  E