Castle No. 46 - New Pharmacy
Location :
This building is located on the left side of the main entrance to
the castle near the Red
Gate. The rear part of the building faces the Ist
Courtyard of Český Krumlov Castle.
Description :
The facades are of Renaissance origin with sgraffito (1556) ending
at the attic.The building is two-storied with a partial basement,
and has modern style roofing laying on the original shingles. The
connecting
corridor went through the west part of the building, connecting
the Minorite
monastery and the castle.
History of its formation :
The development of its construction reaches back to medieval times.
It seems that the beginnings of the walled core are from the 14th
century, when the house was evidently single-storied. The house was
radically reconstructed in the 1620\'s or 30\'s, when a second
attic story was added. This reconstruction is characterized by the
artistically complex early Renaissance window jambs with cornices,
which are characteristic even for other structures of South Bohemia
from the same period. The frontispieces are from a later period and
evidently are related to the origin of the sgraffito facade from
1556. During Classicism a second story was added, and the building
was stabilized with tow bars and the basement was underpinned. In
1913 the building was equipped with a pharmacy. The facade was then
supplemented on the Latrán side with a monumental portal, and three
windows were installed in the side.
Remarkable architectonic details :
Very interesting are the mentioned window jambs and sgraffito
facades. In the interior there is a Gothic portal to the left of
the entrance hall.
History of the inhabitants :
The house was connected with nobility from the very beginnings of
its existence. The first written mention from 1541 lists Hřebenáře
of Hřeben as the owner; he ranked among the minor service nobility
of the Rosenberg court. In 1550 the house was transferred into the
ownership of Mikuláš Humpolec of Tuchoraz, the first clerk of
Wilhelm von
Rosenberg. In the 1570\'s, the house was acquired by the knight
Jáchym Metich of Čečovo na Vizni a Puchelsdorf. During the reign of
Peter Wok, Metich donated the house to his servant Jan Kryštof
Koferleyn for his services. He then sold the house in 1610 for 700
groschen to Mikuláš Snejbersdorf of Tryonštejn. After his death,
his children sold the house to the burgher Matěj Nedopil, who then
sold it to the new Eggenberg nobility. The house has been the
property of the Krumlov castle up until the end of the 20th
century, during which it also served as a residence for a doctor.
In 1913 the ground floor was adapted into the castle pharmacy and
served as such until the 1950\'s, when it was converted partly into
a boiler room and partly into public toilets from the I.
courtyard.
Current use :
The object is presently under reconstruction.
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