Visited:30. 9. 2021
History:The house was built sometime during the second half of the 14th century in the Gothic style. In the 16th century, the owner of the House of the Fourteen Holy Helpers was Petr Štěrba of Štěrbice (†1591), a prominent Kadan townsman and primus (conseiller), scholar, lawyer and politician. Petr Štěrba, who belonged to the Czech-speaking minority of the local patrician families, studied at the University of Wittenberg in Saxony, the centre of the Lutheran Reformation, and received his master's degree there. In Kadan he worked as a town clerk, later as a councillor and at the end of his life also as a royal scribe. In 1569 he received the noble predicate "from Štěrbice" from Emperor Maximilian II. He represented the royal town of Kadan many times in negotiations with the monarch and at the provincial assembly. For example, in 1575, at the Provincial Assembly in Prague, he actively supported the establishment of the Czech Confession, a common confession of all non-Catholics in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Petr Štěrba became famous as a translator of Czech legal texts into German. In 1566, he translated the last edition of the Bohemian Land Law, which was then published in 1604 in Frankfurt am Main. Later he also made a translation of Koldin's town rights from 1579. It was perhaps during this man's lifetime that the house underwent a Renaissance reconstruction, which took place at the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century. After his death, the ownership of the "Stěrbov House" passed to the Thumsecker family. The circular Baroque cartouche with the emblem of the Thumsecker family, a noble bourgeois family, is still in the lobby above the portal, showing Melusine holding a scepter in her right hand and a model of the tower in her left. The monogram W. T. is placed around the emblem jewel, referring to Wolf Thumsecker, who came to Kadan from Bruck in Styria and was admitted to the Kadan townsmen in 1622. His wife was Kateřina Štěrbová of Štěrbice, and their son Wolfgang Thumsecker became the royal swift in Kadan in 1650. The house was also later owned by important bourgeois families. It burned down several times, for example in 1631, 1635, 1746 and 1811. After the fire in 1746, the house was renovated in a Baroque style. For many decades at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the house of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, whose owner in 1916 was Rosa Machová, was the seat of the Kadaň branch of the Anglobank. In 1901, the house underwent its last extensive neo-Renaissance reconstruction. Today, the ground floor of the house houses a café and a fruit and vegetable shop. It was for this reason that the interior of the house was modified in the 1990s to its present form. On the façade of the house there is a Baroque cartouche with semi-figures of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, dating from the first half of the 18th century. This group of saints was considered the main patrons of the royal city of Kadana in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. In the centre of the cartouche is a gilded dove, a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Above the house sign we can see the figure of God the Father and two large Baroque statues of saints on the sides. This is probably a remnant of a much more complex iconographic programme of the façade of the house, which was broken during one of the reconstructions, perhaps after the fire in 1746.
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Impressions:A beautiful baroque house, which is richly decorated.
