Visited:30. 9. 2021
History:The house with Gothic and Renaissance cellars is located on two medieval plots of the former Svatá Street, which is one of the most important roads of the Old Town of Kadan. This townhouse was originally built in the Gothic style probably sometime during the 2nd half of the 14th century. In the course of time, the house was first rebuilt in Renaissance style, and finally, perhaps in the 18th century, rebuilt in Baroque style to its present form. Above the main cornice of the house there is a bell carved in stone with sculptured handles of the bell crown. The bell is incorporated into a Baroque heraldic shield with the carved monogram I. G. The bell symbol in the house sign and the monogram refer to the name of the owner of the house. The house at the Stone Bell was probably the property of the burgher Glock family (German Glocke = bell), which appeared in Kadan at the end of the 16th century and then disappeared soon afterwards. In the right half of the façade there is a distinctive Baroque sculpture of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary, which was probably installed on the façade only secondarily. At the beginning of the 20th century the house was renovated in Art Nouveau style by the owners Josef and Berta Jurmann, who ran a ladies' fashion shop on the ground floor. Josef Jurmann was still involved in municipal politics during the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When on 4 March 1919 a large assembly was held in the courtyard of the Střelnice restaurant against the incorporation of the so-called German Bohemia into the new Czechoslovakia, Jurmann spoke there as a representative of all liberal civic parties. The whole event then ended in a bloody incident with Czech troops on the main square, in which more than two dozen people died. As of 1927, the couple Lorenz and Klara Uhl are mentioned as the new owners of the house. In 1928 they had new shop windows built here, which have been preserved and still significantly determine the appearance of the house. They ran a clothing and fashion accessories shop here until 1945. Lorenz Uhl came from a prominent Kadan bourgeois family that greatly influenced local history in the 19th and 20th centuries. His relative Alois Uhl was a publisher and bookseller who published many books on local history and many postcards of Kadan. In 1945, the house at the Stone Bell was taken over by Josef Šlajs, a Czech, who was a native of Berlin. It is a two-storey brick building covered with a very richly decorated façade and a gabled roof with an ornate dormer.
Source:https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%AFm_U_Kamenn%C3%A9ho_zvonu_(Kada%C5%88)
Impressions:Beautiful and very richly decorated house.
