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The house has a Renaissance core and after the Swedish invasion was rebuilt in Baroque style as a large three-wing house. In 1631 it was bought by the town's mayor Frydrych Kočička, and after 1806 it belonged to Anton von Kaschnitz, an economist in the service of Emperor Joseph II.

In 1848 the house was home to Vrbík's café, and during the Imperial Diet the Club of Slavic Deputies was based here. From its windows the Czech deputies František Palacký and František Ladislav Rieger spoke to the crowds during the Haná banderia (festive mounted processions). Vrbík's café, a centre of Czech life in Kroměříž, moved after 1848 to the opposite corner, into an Empire-style house on whose site Tomáš Baťa built his Shoe House in 1930. The events surrounding the Diet were described by Jindřich Spáčil in his novel Ať žije sněm (Long Live the Diet).

The building is part of the Kroměříž Urban Heritage Reserve.

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KAFEC Kroměříž

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