House at the Lamb, Hradec Králové, Bohemia, Czechia
"House U Beránka (also U Zlatého Beránka) is a neo - baroque house from 1906-07, built on Velké náměstí in Hradec Králové on the site of the older hotel U Zlatého Beránka.
When the Jesuits came to Hradec Králové at the invitation of Bishop Edvard Jan Brynych in 1900, they were not given back the building of their former Jesuit college (today's Nové Adalbertinum), which they lost when the order was abolished in 1773. But a new house was built for them, on the site of the U Zlatého Beránek hotel, which was demolished in 1905 due to structural problems, and the neighboring Kropáčka tower, which was demolished in 1906. The project by architect Rudolf Němek was approved by mayor František Ulrich on May 14, 1906. The investor was the Roman Catholic church, which already owned several other buildings on the southern front of Velké náměstí - the Jesuits only managed the house. The construction was carried out by Robert Schmidt's construction company and was completed in 1907.
It is a corner house, four-story in the front and three-story in the back, with a gable roof. The frontage to the square is four-axis, the facade to the street is significantly longer – fourteen-axis. The ground floor is decorated with belted rustication, and on the upper floors the facade is divided by tall pilasters with Tuscan capitals. The second floor is separated from the third by a prominent cornice. The most striking element of the main facade is the richly decorated Baroque shield. There is a polygonal window in the middle of the shield, two oval openings on the sides. Stone vases were originally placed in the openings and on the sides of the shield. At the top of the shield is a circular halo with the inscription "Agnus Dei" and formerly also a sculpture of a lamb. On the ground floor, the facade to the square opens to a storefront, and on the upper floors, there are windows set in chamfers and with richly decorated suprafenestres.
Hradec Králové (Königgrätz in German) is a statutory city in eastern Bohemia, located at the confluence of the Elbe and Orlica. It has approximately 94 thousand inhabitants and is the capital of the Hradec Králové region. Together with nearby Pardubice, it forms a metropolitan area with 340,000 inhabitants.
Due to its favorable characteristics, the territory of Hradec was already inhabited in prehistoric times. In the Middle Ages, it was the dowry city of Czech queens, and it is to this period that the Gothic cathedral of St. Ducha on its Great Square, which today, alongside the White Tower and the Old Town Hall, is one of the city's landmarks. In the years 1766 to 1857, the city served as a military fortress, due to the lack of interest of the city, it was restored and abolished only in 1884. The city administration made full use of the possibility of complete management of urban development. This literally freed up space for the golden era of Hradec Králové architecture at the beginning of the 20th century, from which, thanks to the buildings of Gočár and Kotěra, the city earned the title Salon of the Republic.
Hradec Králové is a university town, the University of Hradec Králové, some faculties of Charles University and the University of Defense teach here. For example, the regional court or the bishops of the Royal Hradec Catholic and Czechoslovak Hussite dioceses are based here. Klicper's theater is a recognized scene that has won the award "Theatre of the Year" four times, artkino Central is proud of the award "Best European cinema for young audiences" from 2008. Hradec Králové Park 360, which was created in part of the area of the former military airport, provides space, among other things, for the summer of the Rock for People festival.
Bohemia (Latin Bohemia, German Böhmen, Polish Czechy) is a region in the west of the Czech Republic. Previously, as a kingdom, they were the center of the Czech Crown. The root of the word Czech probably corresponds to the meaning of man. The Latin equivalent of Bohemia, originally Boiohaemum (literally "land of Battles"), which over time also influenced the names in other languages, is derived from the Celtic tribe of the Boios, who lived in this area from the 4th to the 1st century BC Bohemia on it borders Germany in the west, Austria in the south, Moravia in the east and Poland in the north. Geographically, they are bounded from the north, west and south by a chain of mountains, the highest of which are the Krkonoše Mountains, in which the highest mountain of Bohemia, Sněžka, is also located. The most important rivers are the Elbe and the Vltava, with the fertile Polabean Plain extending around the Elbe. The capital and largest city of Bohemia is Prague, other important cities include, for example, Pilsen, Karlovy Vary, Kladno, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice and České Budějovice, Jihlava also lies partly on the historical territory of Bohemia." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
House at the Lamb, Hradec Králové, Bohemia, Czechia
"House U Beránka (also U Zlatého Beránka) is a neo - baroque house from 1906-07, built on Velké náměstí in Hradec Králové on the site of the older hotel U Zlatého Beránka.
When the Jesuits came to Hradec Králové at the invitation of Bishop Edvard Jan Brynych in 1900, they were not given back the building of their former Jesuit college (today's Nové Adalbertinum), which they lost when the order was abolished in 1773. But a new house was built for them, on the site of the U Zlatého Beránek hotel, which was demolished in 1905 due to structural problems, and the neighboring Kropáčka tower, which was demolished in 1906. The project by architect Rudolf Němek was approved by mayor František Ulrich on May 14, 1906. The investor was the Roman Catholic church, which already owned several other buildings on the southern front of Velké náměstí - the Jesuits only managed the house. The construction was carried out by Robert Schmidt's construction company and was completed in 1907.
It is a corner house, four-story in the front and three-story in the back, with a gable roof. The frontage to the square is four-axis, the facade to the street is significantly longer – fourteen-axis. The ground floor is decorated with belted rustication, and on the upper floors the facade is divided by tall pilasters with Tuscan capitals. The second floor is separated from the third by a prominent cornice. The most striking element of the main facade is the richly decorated Baroque shield. There is a polygonal window in the middle of the shield, two oval openings on the sides. Stone vases were originally placed in the openings and on the sides of the shield. At the top of the shield is a circular halo with the inscription "Agnus Dei" and formerly also a sculpture of a lamb. On the ground floor, the facade to the square opens to a storefront, and on the upper floors, there are windows set in chamfers and with richly decorated suprafenestres.
Hradec Králové (Königgrätz in German) is a statutory city in eastern Bohemia, located at the confluence of the Elbe and Orlica. It has approximately 94 thousand inhabitants and is the capital of the Hradec Králové region. Together with nearby Pardubice, it forms a metropolitan area with 340,000 inhabitants.
Due to its favorable characteristics, the territory of Hradec was already inhabited in prehistoric times. In the Middle Ages, it was the dowry city of Czech queens, and it is to this period that the Gothic cathedral of St. Ducha on its Great Square, which today, alongside the White Tower and the Old Town Hall, is one of the city's landmarks. In the years 1766 to 1857, the city served as a military fortress, due to the lack of interest of the city, it was restored and abolished only in 1884. The city administration made full use of the possibility of complete management of urban development. This literally freed up space for the golden era of Hradec Králové architecture at the beginning of the 20th century, from which, thanks to the buildings of Gočár and Kotěra, the city earned the title Salon of the Republic.
Hradec Králové is a university town, the University of Hradec Králové, some faculties of Charles University and the University of Defense teach here. For example, the regional court or the bishops of the Royal Hradec Catholic and Czechoslovak Hussite dioceses are based here. Klicper's theater is a recognized scene that has won the award "Theatre of the Year" four times, artkino Central is proud of the award "Best European cinema for young audiences" from 2008. Hradec Králové Park 360, which was created in part of the area of the former military airport, provides space, among other things, for the summer of the Rock for People festival.
Bohemia (Latin Bohemia, German Böhmen, Polish Czechy) is a region in the west of the Czech Republic. Previously, as a kingdom, they were the center of the Czech Crown. The root of the word Czech probably corresponds to the meaning of man. The Latin equivalent of Bohemia, originally Boiohaemum (literally "land of Battles"), which over time also influenced the names in other languages, is derived from the Celtic tribe of the Boios, who lived in this area from the 4th to the 1st century BC Bohemia on it borders Germany in the west, Austria in the south, Moravia in the east and Poland in the north. Geographically, they are bounded from the north, west and south by a chain of mountains, the highest of which are the Krkonoše Mountains, in which the highest mountain of Bohemia, Sněžka, is also located. The most important rivers are the Elbe and the Vltava, with the fertile Polabean Plain extending around the Elbe. The capital and largest city of Bohemia is Prague, other important cities include, for example, Pilsen, Karlovy Vary, Kladno, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice and České Budějovice, Jihlava also lies partly on the historical territory of Bohemia." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.