Náměstí Svornosti No. 6
Location:
Náměstí Svornosti No. 6
Description of the Building:
This three-story corner building has got an eclectic, front facade
which dates to the end of the 19th century. This facade is divided
vertically by pilaster masses and horizontally by contoured
cornices. In both the lower left and lower right corners of the
front of this building, there are two decorative portals with
Corinthian style columns.
Architectural and Historical Development:
The Spořitelna building was built in the years 1886-7 on the site
where two mid-sized structures (corner building no. 5 and adjacent
building no. 6) previously stood. Though from today´s perspective
the building seems to have been inappropriately built, as it sits
on the square like an object out of place, the construction of the
presently-standing three story building occurred in conjunction
with the zeitgeist of the end of the 19th century.
History of the House Residents:
Building no. 5 was a two-story structure which was connected with
the adjacent building (no. 4) by means of a horizontal arched
buttress which ran across Horní Street. Its front facade was
similar to the present-day facades of buildings no. 12 and 13. The
building was owned in 1504 by a butcher named Mareš, who was a
well-respected citizen and town council member, and father of
Martin Mareš, who was the parish priest of Český Krumlov. Martin´s
sister Alžběta was the wife of the Rosenberg chancellor Václav z
Rovného. The next documented owner of the building was Václav
Nyndrtom, who was a town council member from the years 1515-1537.
The
building then was inherited by his son Ambrož, who turned it into a
beer hall and who lived a somewhat disorderly life. Because of his
misconduct, the town council took the building over in 1545 and
moved Ambrož to a less desirable location Latrán No.
5. In the year 1545 the owner of the building was shop keeper
and town councilor of Krumlov Václav Pergar. In the year 1587, a
wine salesman named Mikuláš Pidrson bought the building. Pidrson´s
wife Dorota had a romantic affair with the town clerk, Fredrich
Litvín, who received a very strict punishment from the court for
his actions. Until the year 1639, the building was used as an inn
"U Černého Orla" where they brewed beer and served both beer and
wine. House no. 6 was a one-story building with Renaissance facade
and remnants of a vaulted arcade. In the year 1466, a town butcher
lived here. In the beginning of the 16th century, the building
belonged to town clerk and administrator, Václav Sýkorov and his
wife Anna. The town council sold the building in 1518 to
chamberlain, Václav Hodoňský. He later sold the building to
chamberlain Jiří Strachotinský from Strachotín, who died in 1560.
Strachotínsky´s gravestone, which was once in the oldest cemetery
in Český Krumlov, is presently located in the exterior wall of the
Church of Saint Vitus, where the cemetery once was. In the
beginning of the 1570s, the building belonged to the Rosenberg´s
court wine maker Baltazar Rettek. Further owners of the building
include, for example, a barrel-maker, and later, the town justice
of the peace, and also the Český Krumlov chief magistrate, Kašpar
Pergar, who died of the plague in 1598 when "the air was so filled
with the plague that the town councillors did not even go to the
town hall". The building also served as a wine bar until the year
1654.
Present Use:
Česká spořitelna (Czech Savings Bank)