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Corner House opposite the Château

Corner House opposite the Château

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The house was once a first-class tavern house. From the Renaissance period the window frames on the first floor have survived; after 1687 it was rebuilt in Baroque style. The portal with the bishop's coat of arms dates from the same time and is attributed to the bishop's architect Giovanni Pietro Tencalla.

At the end of the 16th century the house belonged to the minor noble family Pálinka of Štěchovice; Jan Pálinka served several times as the town's mayor. After other noble owners, it was bought in 1687 by the shoemaker Jiří Dresler. Bishop Karl II of Liechtenstein-Castelcorn, however, did not care for a shoemaker as his neighbour, had the purchase cancelled and took over the house himself. For a long time it then housed the bishop's accounts office, which gave it the name Renthaus.

In 1957–1958 the house was repaired as part of the restoration of the Kroměříž Urban Heritage Reserve.

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