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The Maximilian waterworks were built on the orders of the Olomouc Archbishop Maximilian Joseph Sommerau-Beckh to bring water to the town from springs on the slope of Barbořina Hill. The Classicist building with a fountain on Na Kopečku Street dates from 1838; the architect Anton Arche is named as its designer. Locals also call it Max's Waterworks (Maxova vodárna) or Max's Well.

The iron-rich water caused frequent breakdowns, so in 1901 a collecting well was added opposite the Maximilian Farm on the northern edge of the town, followed later by further drilled wells. In the 1930s the waterworks pumped water with electric motors from wells in the Chateau Garden to a reservoir on Barbořina, and from there it flowed by gravity into the town.

An older waterworks, supplied with water from the Morava river, had already been built in the town in 1665–1667 by Bishop Karl II of Liechtenstein-Castelcorn.

The building is part of the Kroměříž urban heritage reserve.

Trips around this place

Interesting places nearby

Bishop's Brewery

Na kopečku 1537, 767 01 Kroměříž

The former bishop's brewery at Na Kopečku below the Mill Gate, whose history goes back to the 16th century. Beer was brewed here for the bishop's court and the villages of his estates.

Restaurace Sladovna

Na Sladovnách 1576/1, 767 01 Kroměříž

A restaurant on Na Sladovnách Street serving modern and traditional Czech cuisine from regional ingredients, with a weekday lunch menu and beer from the Záhlinice brewery.

Prinzhaus

Malý Val 1539/53, 767 01 Kroměříž

A house on Malý Val built by Cardinal Fürstenberg. It is named after Crown Prince Rudolf, who stayed here during the meeting of the emperor and the tsar in 1885.