Latrán No. 27
Location:
Latrán No. 27
Description of the Building:
A very large complex of brewery buildings with its center formed by
four wings that surround a courtyard closed by a Renaissance quoin
portal. All wings including the buildings situated in the courtyard
have sgraffito. The buildings on the Eastern and Northern side also
belong to the brewery. The West wing has primarily cross and
Renaissance vaults with caps. The west side of the northern end of
the wing has a shallow wing the front of which used to be broken on
the ground floor by a Renaissance loggia with its archivolts
preserved in the sgraffito. The part near the Southwest corner has
two stories and a monumental Renaissance stairway. The ground floor
of the East and South wings contains large brewing spaces with
cross vaults with groins.
Architectural and Historical Development:
The West wing is the oldest; it is a reconstructed older building,
as evidenced by the Gothic window on the side facing the garden.
The construction started after 1546, and the building used to be a
widow wing. All other historic wings were built in the time
of
Petr Wok von Rosenberg by the end of the sixteenth century,
when the buildings were turned into an armory. Construction
activity peaked when the next change of the building\'s usage
resulted from the brewery being established (see History
of brewing in Český Krumlov). All remaining buildings were
constructed during the second half of the nineteenth century and
during the twentieth century with the exception of the two wings
adjacent to the main East-West wings which are older.
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Present Use:
Brewery
Eggenberg, Restaurant Eggenberg