Generálhaus

The house has a Renaissance core, a Baroque reconstruction and a façade from the mid-19th century. Above the gate is the town coat of arms with the year 1600. It used to be a first-class tavern house with the right to brew two batches and two barrels of beer whenever its turn came round.

During the Thirty Years' War the respected Finsterwalder family of episcopal officials lived here, sympathetic to the Czech nation. Some of its members were burgraves and mayors of the town; Jindřich Spáčil wrote the novel Tvrz nejpevnější about them.

In 1764 the Kroměříž municipality bought the house and made it available to the commanders of the local garrison. The famous General Laudon from the time of Empress Maria Theresa also lived here. In 1850, when the state rented the town hall for the newly established district authority, the municipal office moved here. It only returned to its original location in 1963.

The house is part of the Kroměříž urban heritage reservation.

Based on a text by Jindřich Spáčil for the memorial plaques of Kroměříž houses.