Bishop's Brewery

The brewery stood outside the town walls in a place called Na Kopečku, below the Mill Gate (Mlýnská brána) west of the château. Its history goes back to the 16th century. Beer was brewed here for the bishop's court and for the inns in the villages of the bishop's estates. Several bishops' coats of arms can be seen on the buildings; the oldest, northern part bears a stone plaque of Bishop Leopold Wilhelm of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, from the 17th century.

The complex, built in different periods, was rebuilt and modernised at the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1950s a soda-water works was set up here, which closed in 2003.

At the nearby junction of Na Kopečku and Malý val streets stands a Baroque sandstone group of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary from 1696, attributed to the French sculptor Jean Baptiste Dieussart. It originally stood by the former Franciscan monastery and was moved here in 1952.

The brewery is part of the Kroměříž Urban Heritage Reserve.