Selected buildings in the square

For easier identification of individual houses there are given today’s allocated numbers. In Nové Město nad Metují houses were numbered in 1785. It is not so long time when there was A at numbers of houses in the square, B at numbers of houses of Krajské předměstí and C at numbers of houses of Horské předměstí. This marking was cancelled. There was added 1200 to numbers of houses in the square, 1000 to numbers of houses of Horské předměstí and numbers in Krajské předměstí remained unchanged.

 

  

It can be found in the western edge of the municipal historical reservation, which is located on the arenaceous promontory, surrounded from three parts by the Metuje River. Together with the chateau it represents a pearl situated in the foothills of the Orlické Mountains. It is located next to so called Land Gate – border cross point to the neighboring Poland, through which there was a commercial path even in ancient periods. History of the chateau starts in the year 1501, when Jan Černčický of Kácov established its core in shape of late Gothic castle.

 

 

After Černčický the manor of Nové Město was owned by the Pernštejns , who, amongst others, had merit in the castle reconstruction. The important builders in the history of the mansion were in 2^nd half of the 16^th century by the Stubenbergs. Their Renaissance finish of the castle to the chateau can be seen in details even today.

 

 

When the Thirty Years‘ War finished, there was performed important, this time early-Gothic reconstruction in years 1651 to 1660. The builders were the Scottish Leslies, who invited also Italian artists. As the main builders there were appointed Carlo Lurago, Domenico Rossi and Fortunato Duretti. In the year 1802 the family tree of Counts Leslies was terminated by death of the last male descendant and the owners did not dwell in the chateau permanently any more. The owners of the families Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie, Attems and Lamberg visited it only occasionally. 

 

 

In June 1812 Russian Tzar Alexander I. stopped here on his way to the anti-Napoleon negotiations with the Prussian King and Austrian Chancellor.

 

Deterioration of the chateau was stopped even in the year 1908, when it was bought by textile manufacturers from the close Náchod, brothers Josef Bohumil and Cyril Adolf Bartoňs with intention to transform it into a dignified and representative residence for their families. Dušan Jurkovič, a renowned architect, was charged with the overall reconstruction and adaptation of the chateau. Construction works were terminated in 1911, Art-Nouveau modification of some interiors continued until 1913. In 1912 the Bartoň family was nobilitated with the predicate of Dobenín. Brothers left the intention to live in the object together in 1910, when Cyril Bartoň purchased a chateau and a country estate Zbraslav at Prague, where he moved with his family. The architect Jurkovič not only adapted both interiors and exteriors in spirit of the period and according to his ideas on transformation of deteriorating historical building to a representative residence, but he also equipped it with technology and modernized. The entire chateau was provided with electricity, central warm-water heating, phone, there were established bathrooms, modern kitchens and also a personal and dining elevator. The old manor waterworks, standing on the embankment of the river under the south-western wing of the chateau and since 1688 for 219 years supplying the chateau, the brewery and the town with water, he changed into hydraulic power plant, the source of electricity.

 

 

 

This power plant, with technological equipment provided by the companies Štorek (the adjustable-blade-type-turbine) and Bartelmus-Donát of Brno (alternating current generator), which was modernized in the 30’s of the 20^th century and which is functional and produces power so far.

 

 

In the period of the First Republic (between the world wars) Jurkovič’s adaptations of interiors were developed by Pavel Janák, in cooperation with artists Helena Johnová, Marie Teinitzerová and František Kysela, now in the style art deco. The last Janák’s adaptations, in the style of Functionalism, are of years 1940 to 1941. Both the architects work with the first class materials and top artists and suppliers of their period. Nowadays the chateau is again, after more than a 40-year interruption, in property of the family Bartoň – Dobenín, which obtained it back from the state, together with some other property, in 1992. The chateau is available for public (under certain conditions all year long), specifically in the full extent as under the national administration. It is possible to see original Jurkovič’s and Janák’s interiors, collection of M. Teinitzerová’s textiles as well as of H. Johnová’s ceramics. In the collection of other artistic works there are represented the following artists: F. Bílek, P. J. Brandl, J. Čermák, A. Hudeček, B. Jaroněk, J. Kupecký, J. Mánes, J. Mařák, J. V. Myslbek, V. Nechleba, V. Sedláček, K. Škréta, O. Španiel, J. Štursa, M. Švabinský, J. Úprka and others. Also the chateau garden went through a wide adaptation and revitalization under the guidance of the architect Jurkovič in the years before the 1^st world war. Except for architectonical adaptations he also projected here a warmed greenhouse and water systems, fed from the Metuje River and designated for irrigation, supplying of the fountain and other water elements. The upper part, in next vicinity of the chateau building, was divided by terraces with flowerbeds and wooden fences. The wooden covered bridge, which is made in the spirit of Valachian folklore constructions, used by Jurkovič as inspiration at its development in 1911, allows you to get to the lower part of the garden. It is divided into three parts. The right one, with the greenhouse, has the sivicultural (supplying) function with the task to supply with flowers, vegetables and other crops. The left part was adapted as the orchard, where the tennis court and the pool were located. The middle parterre with bosquets, broderies and the baroque fountain fulfills decorative function. Its part is “theatron” with stony figures of the “Dwarf Cabinet”.

 

 

Together with other sculptures, which are located in front of the main entrance of the chateau, they were created in the workshop of the baroque sculptor in the 1^st third of the 18^th century. Their original destination was precincts of the baroque magnate, the count F. A. Sporck in Kuks. For decoration and enrichment of the chateau complex in Nové Město were also selected by the architect Jurkovič. The chateau garden Nové Město is a reminiscence of Italian baroque gardens, however with clean elements of the Art-Nouveau stereotype of the period of its origin, mainly in original intentions of the architect Jurkovič in geometry of beds and their planting. It is also the last established formal chateau garden of its kind in our territory before the end of the 20^th century.  

 

 

The great example value for contemporary adaptations of historical buildings as well as for development of monument preservation have performed interiors of architects Jurkovič and Janák due to the fact, that at application of their contemporary artistic invention they maximally respected artistic and monumental value of older decoration, which can be in possible extent, based on their level of preservation and at will of the owner, they left to be seen by other generations.

 

The northern main chateau tower called the Churn, 30 fathoms (53 m) high, has a roofed parapet walk in the height of 25 m, from which wide surroundings can be seen, as well as skyline of the Krkonoše Mountains and the Orlické Mountains. The internal adaptation of the tower in form of shell niches, richly modeled stucco medallions with portraits of Roman rulers and alliance heraldries above doors are from the 2^nd half of the 17^th century. The staircase of the red xylolite was adapted in the year 1909, as well as the window sill of the roofed parapet walk and the tower clock with two dials with 1.5 m in average and two cymbals with 66 and 45 kg, which remind us with its “voice” regularly that time runs. The second tower, growing originally above the eastern corner up to the height of the mentioned parapet walk, crashed down at conquest of the chateau in March 1628 after explosion of gunpowder stored inside it. The rumor was that 150 persons in its vicinity died. Not all of them were found.  

  

Italian master builders and stuccoworkers, participating in the early Baroque reconstruction of the chateau in the 2^nd half of the 17^th century, as well as F. V. Harovník with his paintings al fresco, participated in this region also on building adaptations and decorations of other mansions. The example may be chateau in the nearby Náchod, where they worked for the same reason for Ottavio Piccolomini de Aragon, Duke of Amalfi, co-belligerent of Walter, Count Leslie, in the imperial army, initiator and co-actor of the execution in Cheb in 1634.

 

Rooms on the 2^nd floor of the north-eastern wing were used in the course of 19^th century, when the chateau was not permanently dwelled by its owners, as so called Noble Apartment. These rooms, with the contemporary equipment, were preserved for occasional visits of owners and their guests. It can be therefore expected, that this is place where the Russian Tzar Alexander I was regaled at his first visit of the chateau in the year 1812. Other rooms of the chateau were in this period used for administrative and economic purposes and leased to governmental and church institutions as flats and offices. On halls on 2^nd floor of the north-western wing there were in the course of the 19^th century held club balls, exhibitions and annual meetings.

 

 

  

Jan Černčický of Kácov, Černčice and Krčín 1501 – 1527

Lords of Pernštejn 1527 – 1548

Lords of Stubenberg 1548 – 1621

Wolfgang I. of Stubenberk 1548 – 1556

Jan ze Stubenberk        1557 – 1570

Wolfgang II. of Stubenberk (adminitrator for Rudolf) 1570 – 1588

Rudolf of Stubenberk 1588 – 1620

Justina of Stubenberk 1621

Regal Chamber at reign of Ferdinanda II. 1621 – 1623

Albrecht of Wallenstein 1623 – 1624

Trčkas of Lípa 1624 – 1634

Magdalena Trčková 1624 – 1629
Adam Erdman Trčka 1629 – 1634

Counts of Leslie 1634 – 1802

Walter of Leslie 1634 – 1667
James of Leslie 1667 – 1693
James Ernst of Leslie 1693 – 1737
Charles Caietanus of Leslie 1737 – 1762
Leopold of Leslie 1762 – 1774
Anthon of Leslie 1774 – 1802

Princes of Dietrichstein 1802 – 1858

Johann Karl of Dietrichstein 1802 – 1808
Franz Josef of Dietrichstein 1808 – 1858

Heirs of the Leslies, the Dietrichsteins and the Lichtensteins 1858 – 1908

Josef Bartoň of Dobenín (+1951) 1908 – 1948
JUDr. Václav Bartoň, co-owner since 1939 (+1982)

Nationalization of property 1948 – 1992

Bartoňs of Dobenín 1992

Josef Bartoň-Dobenín 1992

For a long time it was a guard house or gaol house built next to the wall and tower Zázvorka. Its construction started after the year 1535. The courtyard between the town hall and the jailhouse had in the middle a paved lane, along which water flew during rain. The gaol was covered with shingles and it had a small tower with a weathercock. There were two paved rooms and a cellar. The most repaired parts of the gaol were windows and their bars due to prisoners’ frequent escape attempts. For certain period the house was even used as a hospital. In 19^th century the house was repaired and rebuilt inside. In period of the first republic two cells were used as a municipal prison for homeless people, drunkards etc. They were watched by a warden, who had a service apartment on the ground floor. Perpendicular wall, which terminates the rampart, had to be repaired in 1926. Shattered bricks in it were replaced with stones. Since the 50’s of the 20^th century the house was used for living. Nowadays there is a gallery and an information center located in the building.

 

 

Its name probably originates from its location. It was behind the pike (in Czech „za závorou”), which barred the road in front of the Regional Gate. Nowadays it is used as an observation tower.

 

 

 

The house was mentioned even in the year 1507. In this object there started fire, which destroyed the whole town in 1526. The house was renewed in 1531 to 1536. One year later there is mentioned also a frontage. The house has a smooth, triaxial facade. A curly gable is framed with profile ledges. The arcade has two cross fields with crowns and two semicircular arcades. Atypical disposition of the ground floor has on the right in front a hall with a semicircular vault and contact sections, in the middle you can find a late Renaissance solid newel stairs, in the back there is a wide passage with a Baroque segmental arch and blazons. On the left in front there is a hall with a semicircular vault, in the middle you can find a black cuisine, in the back there is an apparently narrower chamber with a semicircular vault and dissentient sections with crowns. The first floor is modern. 

   

 

This house is former meat shops and a school, later a municipal council and nowadays a club house and a residence of the Municipal Museum director. Topography of this area in the period, when town was being founded, is not clear. Before fire there was a row of four to six houses, from which one was probably a school. 

 

 

After the fire, after 1526, there were built wooden meat shops and in their vicinity, in direction towards the church, a wooden school. From the built-up area before the fire only a Gothic cellar remained, which has no relation with disposition of local later walled house.

  

 

Nowadays‘ construction is from the later Renaissance, of the years 1589 to 1595. In 1591 the construction developed so far that meat shops started to be used again, however further adaptations continues as far as 1595, since even this year the school was ceremonially dedicated and handed over to the public. It was situated on the first floor of the building.

 

Probably construction of the meat shops and the school was planned to be separate. The school had to be next to the parsonage, and since in this corner of the square there was already little space, the school was built directly on the meat shops.  

 

In 1825 the back part was enlarged with the second floor, gables to the square were later lowered. In the back part of the ground floor behind the meat shops there was the slaughter. In 1863 it was cancelled and a new suitable location was being looked for – in the backhouse area behind the monastery, in 1873 in the house 1041 and from 1895, based on suggestion of František Maervart, on the Špitálský Hill in a new building. In 1864 the second floor was elevated even in the front part of the building. In 1874 meat shops were cancelled and butchers cut meat in the arcades, where they had chunks and meat hooks. The last person moving to his own shop was in 1893 František Škvára. Adaptation for the municipal council was done in 1893 together with opening of a new school in Dlouhá (Komenského) street in 1892. 

 

The building stands freely on the wing of the eastern block of the square, now without arcades. Between this house and the house No. 1224 there is a narrow lane. Both the houses are interconnected with arches. The Renaissance facade of originally one floor building can be seen in illustration of 1850 (see Tomek’s colored illustration in the Rydl’s Chronicle). The building has a big vaulted entrance on the ground floor. At the corner it has a two-wing sun dial with the inscription: Hora ruit, respice finem. Iuste vive et cole Deum. (Hours pass, look to the end. Live rightly and a worship God).

 

Attics with three windows and volutes on sides were divided by simply profiled ledges from the floor and two triangular gables. Ground floor has the original disposition with the middle aisle and adjoined meat shops. Behind the strong wall it continues with three rooms interconnected with semicircular arcades, which can be accessed from the courtyard. The ground floor is vaulted as the whole with cross fields with crests. The first floor, which was not a long time ago available via the outer staircase from the south side, preserved only original enclosure walls and was probably a simple flat-ceiling triple-tract.

 

The double roof with the valley in the middle was decorated with a small tower with the bell for calling scholars. Date of cancellation of the small tower is not known. Otherwise the building was of appearance similar with other houses in the square. The school was destroyed by the fire in 1724. During renovation of the building wooden stairs were replaced with the stony staircase.

 

Improvement of the interior was performed in 1810 to 1814. E.g. the teacher had now a two-room apartment. The building has never been sold, therefore comparison of building costs with the market rate is missing, however the built-in area around responds to the average. The inner equipment misses the expensive Italian chimney above the black cuisine and under-vaulted staircase, but on the other hand this building was equipped with the inner staircase and unlike many bourgeois houses it has thoroughly vaulted ground floor with solid cross vaults.

 

In 1893 the town hall was cancelled in the house No. 1209 and the municipal council was moved to the building No. 1225, which had been adapted. On the ground floor, where originally meat shops were, there was established a firehouse. This was possible due to high and wide entrance. On the first floor there were situated offices and on the second floor an assembly hall, municipal savings-bank and the income officer.

 

In 1924 and 1925 the town hall was reconstructed and in the same time also adaptation of the assembly hall was performed. That time wall paintings and inscriptions were discovered referring to the fact that there had been a school in the building for 300 years: Si fas est omnes pariter pereatis avari. (Should justice exist, all of you skinflint will die). At the windows there were written letters with the red chalk: W S P. There were also other inscriptions and paintings, however more destroyed.

 

In the year 1981 the building was reconstructed. The external staircase stopped to be the communication element, the firehouse was cancelled and the entrance hall was made out of this area, from which the stairs lead to the first floor. Years 1994 and 1995 became symbol of new reconstruction connected with the replacement of the entrance doors, windows, roof and the new facade.

 

 

It was mentioned for the first time in 1539. As the back house No. 1224 it was in 1536 to 1539 adjoined to the late Gothic bastion, which was a part of the municipal ramparts. This period includes elementary body of the house on the ground floor and on the floor. Paintings in the window linings on the first floor are from the second quarter of the 18^th century. They have portrait motives in cartouches.

 

As it was already indicated the house is a part of the semicylindrical rampart bastion. It preserves substance, layouts and vaults of the original one-storey house. The first tract of the ground floor is in form of a semicircular vault over the passage of the backhouse lane behind the house No. 1224. The entrance renaissance hall with the intersection profiled lining of the rectangular portal has a semicircular vault and one cross field with crowns. The hall on the left has a cross field and three sections with crowns in the bastion niche. On the first floor the hall over the passage has a semicircular vault. The room in the outer tract on the left is vaulted via a cross field with sections in the bastion niche. The cellar was probably originally missing.

 

This house was divided from the house 1224 in 1569.

 

Not long time ago there was located a municipal archive in this house. Fortunately it was moved to the county archive, since it was affected by the moist environment. In the middle of the 90’s of the 20^th century the house was renovated for the municipal museum and permanent exhibition.

 

The Saint Trinity Church has not an evidence number and it starts the block of houses on the southern side. It is firmly connected with the house No. 1227.

 

 

Jan Černčický took in account neither the church nor the parsonage at foundation of the town, since both of them were in Krčín. In places, where nowadays the church is located, there was a wooden dwelling house, similar to other houses.

 

For citizens the Krčín church was quite far, which was the reason, why in the year 1513 the municipal council bought the named house and after having pulled down its wooden parts it started to build the church. In the year 1519 the construction was finished. Speed of the construction was possible due to numerous legacies. In the year 1522 regular alternations of religious services in Krčín and in Nové Město were agreed. Since 1523 the church was used fully for its purpose. The new church had almost square ground plan, it was walled and it had a free truss without a ceiling. The tower did not stand yet, and where now it is situated there was originally a sacristy. Immovable estates were continually added to the church, as the first it was a garden in Bořetín and a meadow in Provaznice.

 

 

The fire in the year 1526 affected also the church. Everything made of wood burnt down, especially the truss and the cover, however walls remained. This was advantage of the church compared with the bourgeois houses. No other bigger elements for masons appeared. Wooden parts were quickly replaced and even in the year 1527 the church served against its purpose. It was covered with a shingle roof and decorated with a small tower. In 1528 it was completed and windows were glazed. Its reconstruction was covered by gifts even from more distant places.  

 

In 1528 the church was prolonged and the gallery, or so called choir-loft, was added. In 1530 construction of the tower started. It was added to the southern part of the church, to the presbytery. It is a stately high cylindrical construction, almost of the square ground plan. Completion of the church and of the tower dates to the year 1541, while one year before the church was, based on instructions of Jan of Pernštejn, thoroughly rebuilt. Its appearance of that year has remained till today.

 

The tower has a gallery, a helmet and it is strengthened by connection with the wall. Originally there was a house of the bellman. The municipal clock with the bell “rouser” was located in the church tower. Since the clock needed repair each year, Jan of Kácov donated to the municipality a meadow, which was called the Horologist’s Meadow. The clock stroke also quarters of an hour. In 1584 the original tower truss was demolished and a new one was built. Under the truss there was built a warning post with four windows, which was a timbered gallery with handrail all over the four parts. Nowadays there are hung three bells of year 1542, 1949 and 1994 in the tower. 

 

The church was covered with the cross vault and it is decorated with Gothic windows. Jan of Pernštejn donated to church a tin font in 1543. There is the emblem of the Pernštejns with the aurochs on it. The Dean Pelhřim Novák however sold it in the 2^nd half of the 19^th century; nowadays the font is in the depository of the National Museum.

 

In 1556 the church went through other construction changes. From the outside there was added a covered staircase to the choir and inside the church was prolonged under the first floor of the neighboring house.

 

The church stopped to be the filial church in 1567, when the parsonage was officially moved from Krčín to Nové Město. At this occasion other adaptations of the church were performed.

 

After the fire in 1639 there was erected a new truss. In 1677 the church obtained a new alter (the Holy Trinity) and a new organ. In 1777 new ceiling fresco paintings were built.

 

In 1805 a big part of the church roof crashed down, however no one was injured. Based on financial assistance of Karl of Dietrichstein the roof was reconstructed and covered with tiles.

 

In the period of the Prince Franz Josef of Dietrichstein there the shabby roof above the presbytery had to be removed in 1817. Also this roof went through general reconstruction and covered with tiles. From this period also the small tower comes. In 1821-2 the crypt was cancelled and the level of the floor was raised based on sand coverage and paving. The outer coat was modified into nowadays’ appearance in the year 1896.

 

The church bay is rectangular, adjoined by the polygonal presbytery. The roof is of two types: over the presbytery it is hipped and transversal roof areas have triangular shape. The big cathedral area has the saddle roof. The west side of the church originally ended with a Renaissance gable with well-known swallow tails. These were taken down in 1875. Nowadays the back front protrudes only slightly above the roof of the deanship.

 

Internal part of the church bay is covered with the cross vault with disappearing crowns.

 

Thanks to construction of the church the town was given the second very important dominant. Its skyline grows high above the town, representing a dignified partner to the chateau.

 

Internal equipment of the church comes usually of 17^th century. The organ is of the year 1656, made by Jiří Weindt of Křešov. In the beginning it created a uniform scene, however in 1851 it was divided into two parts. In the front of the choir-loft there hangs an old Marian painting of 1726. It is important due to the fact that there is drawn a silhouette of our town at its bottom edge, and the house gables have still the Pernštejn shapes. This also proves, together with the building investigation, that this construction element was used in our country in the Pernštejn period. The painting in the main altar comes from the year 1691 and represents the Holy Trinity. It was painted in Graz and donated to the church by James, Count of Leslie. In the year 1745 the walls were decorated with the Calvary paintings. Nowadays’ Calvary is of the year 1905. It was made by a Černčice native, the academic painter Josef Ladislav Šichan. The main altar is a magnificent Baroque work. In 1851 it was made by Jan Král, a decorator of No. 1050. In the first floor galleries there are both Baroque paintings, originally situated on the ground floor, and then Václav Hellich’s paintings from the middle of the 19^th century, which were ordered by Jan Karel Rojek.   

 

In the niche of the church wall, on the left side from the entrance there is a sculpture of St. James. This sandstone sculpture originally decorated the front of the Church of St. Salvador, where it was located in the niche above the portal in direction towards the Regional Gate. When the church was pulled down in 1877, the merchant František Smola had the sculpture built at his expenses next to the deanship on the octagonal fountain, which it had had erected here before also at his expenses. This small fountain was made of one sandstone rock as the previous, four-square. When in 1896 the water mains were built, the fountain together with the sculpture was moved to the Decanal Garden. Some time later the sculpture was moved to the arbor of the Decanal Garden. At reconstruction of the church in 1922 it was repaired and placed on the pedestal in the church wall niche. The place is framed with the iron bar.

 

In 1886 the Church was painted by the painter Haněk of Nový Hrádek.

 

The church went through bigger reconstruction in period of the Dean Novotný, in 1922. That time it was very shabby and reconstruction was possible only thanks to Josef Bartoň – Dobenín. It was necessary to stiffen trusses and the roof had to be covered with tiles. There was also installed a ledge, which in previous years had been replaced by planks. The church was newly painted. In the year 1973 the church was given a new facade. That time was confirmed that the church was built of the same material as the bourgeois houses. The last but one repair of the church is of 2000. During the last extensive repair, at the administrator Linhart, in the anniversary year of the town, 2001, the floor was lowered to the original level. In addition 5 rare tombstones were found (the oldest of Lord Jan Stang of Boberstein and of Stonsdorf of the year 1555), remnants of the grave places, ceramic shatters of the 14^th to 16^th centuries (can be expected due to further related findings in the location, the period of the Lausitz Culture). Consequently there was restored the classical organ in its last stage of adaptation made by Hanisch.

 

 

The decanal church has a part of the wall common with the building of deanship. Since the Krčín parson has its chantry land in Krčín, he did not want to live in Nové Město. At the end he had to adapt. In 1523 the house No. 1227 next to the church was bought. Its main treatments were made before the year 1534 and in the following year the parson, who so far had lived in Krajské předměstí, could move to the parsonage. The parsonage as the institution was not moved from Krčín before 1567. The original parson’s dwelling was long and narrow. In order to obtain a little more width construction had to be led over the additionally-built western part of the church. At beginning the parsonage had three rooms, a room, a chamber and a room for servants. 

 

Before 1623 the parsonage was utraquistic, after this year catholic. In 1625 it was promoted to deanship. The dean Martin Bittner added in 1681 so called capuchin room. 

 

Before the deanship there was a wooden fountain, which in 1790 was replaced with a stony fountain. It was supplied with water from the manor waterworks.

 

The deanship was in the 18th century enlarged in the back by the added room. In 1772 there was purchased a neighboring bourgeois house No. 1228 and during construction works both the houses were transformed in one. In 1813 the dean František Kouba had the deanship whitewashed and the roof tiled. He also enlarged the farm building, added a shed and he fenced the whole courtyard with a newly built wall. In the second half of the 19^th century the building of the deanship was in so desolate condition that it reminded of a ruin. The dean Jan Karel Rojek together with chaplains had to move at the end of the 50’s of the 19^th century to the chateau, where he however caught a cold and in 1862 looked for asylum in the house No. 1235, who belonged to the merchant Smola. However in the same year he, due to personal and health reasons, he also left to Budyně nad Ohří. The new dean Pelhřim Novák lived also in the house No. 1235 till the deanship was completed.

  

Building of the deanship, which occurred between 1867 to 1869, was really thorough. The whole construction of the neighboring house was elevated by the second floor and in fact a new big building with the roof perpendicular towards the neighbor’s roof was built. Depth of this house is connected with the width of the church.

 

The house No. 1228 was, as already mentioned, rebuilt in 1867 to 1869 and only its enclosure walls were retained. One section of a strong depth wall was added on ground floor. The arch-way has two cross fields and two arcades. A Gothic, fully semicircular cellar has airspace of 99 m³.

 

 

The terminal house closely adjoined to the former Mountain Gate. It is out of the quadrangle of the square on the south-western corner. For the first time mentioned in 1520. It was the only house, which survived disastrous fire in 1526. In 1549 the house went through a big reconstruction. Its west side consists of the rampart, disposition of the ground floor is probably renaissance, baroque reconstruction is apparent due to wooden ceilings. The organism of the house was affected by the reconstruction in relation with demolition of the Mountain Gate in the year 1905. That time the new southern frontage was erected. Irregular quadraxial frontage has two cantilevers of the former bay on the left. The rectangular portal leads to the middle room with a semicircular vault with crown sections. On the left in background there is a semicircularly vaulted chamber and in the front a big space with the Baroque beam ceiling, which repeats also on the first floor above the staircase. On the right, from the ceiling to the first floor, there is a semicircularly vaulted tract with massive walls of the Gothic core before 1526, which has several contact triangle sections on the ground floor.    

 

 

 

In history each house had its emblem. From time to time it is however necessary to renew a facade or at least a paint and to retain the emblem is extrawork. Therefore only the golden star in the blue round field on the house No. 1222, golden ram No. 1223, painting of the Savior No. 1230 and the blue star in the white round field No. 1223 have remained till today. Stylization of the Kosek’s business company and three stars of the house No. 1234 are of newer date. There is neither a green tree in the festooned field on the house No. 1213, nor a lion on the house No. 1229, nor a golden sphere in the niche of No. 1237, nor an elephant on the No. 1238 and nor two wide axes in the sandstone in the house No. 1242, where the butchery was. The newest house emblem – miner’s lamps – were added in the 90’s of the 20^th century on the house No. 1236, which became a property of the Kahanecs family (a miner’s lamp is “kahan” in Czech).