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Slovanský dům (Slovanský dům)
Na Příkopě 22 Praha 1 - Nové Město 110 00 Phone: 604 904 081 http://www.slovanskydum.comAbout
Slavic House| The Slavic House (Slovanský dům) is an immovable monument registered in the National list of cultural monuments as the Vernier’s Palace. The palace was built from two medieval houses, the smaller of which was purchased in 1414 by a squire named Janek Jednooký (One-eyed), a porter in the Royal Court nearby, which might have been the name of Jan Žižka. At the end of the 16th century, both the houses were connected by the next owner, Samuel, the knight of Nejepín, who started to build a Renaissance palace here, yet he never finished the residence. Over the years, the house changed names as it changed owners: Špork, Vršovec, Příchovský, Tuskany. In 1695, count Špork arranged for the object to be acquired by Jan Bartoloměj, baron Vernier de Rougemont, a descendant of French knights, who completed the monumental reconstruction of the palace in 1697, probably according to a project of Jean-Baptiste Mathey. Back then, the house got its Classicising character with two symmetrical portals and a magnificent front with a marked roof pavilion in the middle. The palace was connected to the municipal water supply and a geometrically trimmed French garden was established in the direction of today’s Jindřišská Street. In the 18th century, the palace was owned by the Vršovec princes, who had an opulent picture gallery here. The imperial chamberlain Jan Václav Příchovský, a free gentleman of Příchovice, bought the residence from them. He had to repair the palace after the Prussian gunnery in 1757. His son then sold the palace in an auction to a rich wholesaler and war supplier Jan Václav Tuskany. He rebuilt the entire building at a great cost according to a project of Filip and František Heger. It was then that the palace got its present appearance. The building was raised with the second floor, and the facade was decorated by numerous Classicist features. Yet some features from the original early-Baroque palace architecture were preserved. In 1799, The Tuskany family accommodated the entire supreme command of the Russian expedition body with Grand Prince Konstantin and Generalissimo Suvorov. The Tuskany family also started to use the palace for business and production purposes, which was even further developed by the next owner, textile entrepreneur Leopold Dormitzer, who built a textile plant in the numerous annexed objects. However, many hotels, cafés and banks were growing in the neighbourhood, and industrial manufacture could not hold for very long. In 1873, the palace was acquired by the association Deutches Kasino and the palace got a new name the German House. It was the central point of the German part of Prague promenade, while the Bohemian promenade was located between today’s Tesco and the National Theatre. The German House was the centre of the German minority in Prague, being the centre of burschen nationalist associations and excesses on one side, but on the other side also the centre of German culture in Prague, including the Jewish one. Demolition and subsequent new construction of the object was not permitted, and in 1910 the facade was restored, new business portals were established, and restaurant premises in the basement were added in 1925. In 1933 - 1934, extensive Baroque addition behind the palace’s main building was demolished and a new construction was built with a ferro-concrete shell and external cladding of arenaceous marl according to a project of Friedrich Lehmann. The most significant place in the German House was the well known dancing Mirror Hall, where also concerts, celebrations and poetic evening sessions were held. The German House included the house at the square Senovážné náměstí, adjacent from the back to the yard of the palace. There were flats, offices, restaurants and a theatre in this house, built in Secession style according to a project of Josef Zasche. Later on it was extended with a g
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