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Hanspaulka Mansion (Usedlost Hanspaulka)
Šárecká 29 Praha 6 - Dejvice http://www.praguewelcome.cz/srv/www/en/objects/detail.x?id=53217About
Hanspaulka Mansion| Hanspaulka used to be one of the most imposing and largest homesteads in Dejvice, which later gave the name to the entire villa area built in the 20s of the 20th century on its former grounds. Originally, there were vineyards as in all Prague environs. The local vineyards were called Diskaciátka, Toulka, Chodovská, Durinka and Slavíkovská and included a residential building and a winepress. A metropolitan canon Daniel Josef Majer bought it all in 1696. Later he gave all such related lands together with the mansion as a present to the imperial councillor Hans Paul Hippmann in appreciation of his former services and the mansion still bears his name: Hanspaulka. He considerably aggrandized the original farmhouse; in 1733 he built a two-storey Baroque manor with a decorative frontage at the former vineyard Diskaciátka plus he extended the orchard and bought more land. The booming economy ceased due to the occupation of Prague by both, French army in 1742 and Prussian army in 1744. Over time, the Hanspaulka had many different owners and the building was rebuilt several times, for example in the years 1823, 1934 and then in the fifties. Today, it is a two-storey rectangular mansion with a mansard roof and a late baroque facade. The staircase with pillars decorated by sandstone pinecones leads to the terrace where there is a roofed hexagonal well.After the First World War the Hanspaulka became property of the City of Prague, the farm buildings were demolished and the manor house became a place where a private collection of Prague region archaeological monuments collected by one of the Prague archaeology founders Josef Antonín Jíra was stored. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, the municipality of Dejvice gained his collection partly as a gift and partly by purchasing. Archaeological findings were exhibited in the Hanspaulka manor where the Archaeological Museum accessible to the public was opened. Furthermore, the Society for the preservation and multiplication of collections of J. A. Jíra (Společnost pro zachování a rozmnožení sbírek J. A. Jíry) was established. Under German occupation the administration set up the Marcomannic Museum there. After the Second World War the archaeological collections became a part of the City of Prague Museum (Muzeum hlavního města Prahy). While building the underground, the number of excavated objects rapidly increased, thus the museum was overcrowded and had to be closed to the public. Then the collections were relocated and in 1996 the city council sold the mansion to a private company for commercial purposes.The Hanspaulka residential area has originated from the 20s of the 20th century when various houses were built there. The most interesting and finest is the residential complex of the Czechoslovak Work Union (Svaz československého díla) called Baba, built according to the urban design of the architect Pavel Janák.
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