Dlouhá No. 91
Location:
Dlouhá No. 91
Description of the Building:
A small one-storey house with a Classical front and a volute gable
with a tympanum. The ground floor is created by a barrel-vaulted
section with a staircase leading to the upper floor. At the back
there is a small court wing. The house has a saddle roof which is
perpendicular to the street front.
Architectural and Historical Development:
The house is of Gothic origin, which can be seen on the stone
vaulting of the entrance hall on the ground floor. The house was
significantly reconstructed in the Rennaissance period, when it was
separated from its neighbour No. 92 in 1581. The first floor with
ridged vaults originates probably from that time. Further
reconstructions were carried out during Classicism, when a newly
designed front and division of the entrance hall was created. Some
division walls were removed recently and in 1996 the facade was
newly renovated.
Significant Architectural Features:
- sizeable vaulting of the entrance hall
- ceilings of the upper floor rooms
- a mural of the Virgin Mary of Sorrows on the facade
History of the House
Residents:
In 1581 a furrier Tomáš Höslinger bought a part of his house No. 92
from Jiří Kunsteter (Gunsteter) and changed it into a detached
house. There was a well next to the house. Later, probably in 1586,
the house became the property of a Rosenberg accountant Matyáš Fuch
of Fuchýřova, who paid 60 three scores of Meissen groschen for it.
After Fuch´s death in 1598 Peter Wok von Rosenberg sold it to his
footman Jiří Firbic, who sold it in 1606 to Anna Angstwurm for 110
three scores of Meissen groschen. She kept the house until 1619,
when a butcher Tomáš Landsknecht came in. In 1636 the house was
bought for 185 three scores of Meissen groschen by a blacksmith
Řehoř Precht. Two years later Mates Pirner moved there, followed by
Jan Jiří Mezihorský in 1660. From 1708 the house belonged to a
hatter Ondřej Hoffrichter, who paid 350 Rhinish guldens for it. His
family stayed in the house for nearly one hundred years. In the
years 1807 - 1822 Kašpar Gloss owned it, followed by Albert and
Kateřina Kramlinger. They lived there to at least the 1840s. In
1928 the owner Alfred Hohenberger had one ground floor window
changed into an entrance to the shop which he opened in the
house.
Present Use:
Historical book store