Hotel Haná

This old merchant's and tavern house has a Renaissance core, preserved vaults and an arcade; the second floor was added after 1875. From the 16th century it belonged to the Kojecký family, and after the Swedes plundered the town in 1643 the long-serving burgomaster Blažej Březovský lived here. For a short time it was owned by the Monastery of St Thomas in Brno, and in 1724 it was bought by the burgher Jan Ventruba – hence its older name, the Ventruba House.

In 1754, when the Austrian army was being reformed after the wars with Prussia, the town bought the house and turned it into barracks for two companies of soldiers. Once new barracks had been built, it sold the house in 1875 to the butcher and sausage maker Simon, who opened the popular Hotel Simon here. After a complete renovation in 1956–1960 the hotel was renamed Haná. A later conversion was never finished and the building is empty today.

The hotel is connected to the neighbouring Renaissance house, rebuilt in Baroque style, with memorial plaques to two deputies of the Kroměříž Diet, František Augustin Brauner and Karel Havlíček Borovský. Havlíček actually lived in the next house along, which in 1848 belonged to the merchant Wais. Its German owner, however, refused in 1908 to allow the plaque on the right house, so it was placed one house further on.

The house is part of the Kroměříž Urban Heritage Reserve.