Visited:30. 9. 2021
History:The house U Zlaté konvice is located in the very centre of the Old Town of Kadan on the main square (formerly Tržní, now Mírové). It is built on an originally medieval plot of land that was laid out in the 13th century when the royal city of Kadana was founded. The original Gothic building had to undergo several complete reconstructions after the great destructive fires of the city in 1362, 1421 and 1498. It was in the 15th century that the house underwent its Renaissance reconstruction. The first known owner of house no. 50 was the burgher Hans Czeumer, who is mentioned as the owner in 1553. Eleven years later, the next owner of the house was Hans Purrass, whose family owned it until 1604, when the house came into the possession of Andreas Funk, a burgher from Annaberg in Saxony, who also married the widowed Euphrosina Purrass that year. During the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), the house suffered two fires, in 1631 and 1635. Shortly thereafter, the burn site became the property of the town councillor Johann Ulrich, who with his wife Eva later expanded their real estate in Kadan to include the so-called Bohemian Mill in the Špitálské suburb. When Johann Ulrich died suddenly in 1637, his wife Eva became the sole owner of the house and remarried and remained the owner of the house as Eva Kotz after 1654. The next owner of the house was Jan Zikmund Hošťálek of Javořice, the son of the famous Mayor of Žatec, Maximilian Hošťálek, who was one of the twenty-seven Czech lords executed by order of the Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. Habsburg in 1621 on the Old Town Square in Prague. The other owners of the house were the engraver Johann Ernst Schulthes and the pharmacist Johann Hutschenreiter with his wife Eva Margaretha. After 1701, the house became the property of Leopold Florian Müller, but he became so indebted that he fled Kadana and house no. 50 was sold at auction in 1713. At that time, house no. 50 became the property of Jakob Ignaz Otta of Ottlilienfeld, a wealthy man from a distinguished family who had already owned numerous plots of land and fields in the vicinity of the town. While his father, Sigmund Ernst, a Kadan coat of arms and lawyer, was the town secretary for many years, Jakob Ignaz Otto was the collector of the so-called drink tax in Kadan. For his conscientious performance and other merits he was promoted by the Roman Emperor and King Charles VI of Bohemia. The Habsburgs confirmed the family's earlier predicate and coat of arms with red hearts, golden roses and lilies. After his death in 1743, Jakob Ignaz Otto of Ottlilienfeld was ceremoniously buried in the Dean's Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Kadan. His sons also earned important positions and both were knighted. Johann held the office of governor of the Loket region and Ignaz the office of governor of the Žatec region. The Knights of Ottlilienfeld owned house no. 50 on the square in Kadan until 1786. In that year, a great fire broke out in the town, affecting most of the Old Town, and the burnt-out house was bought from the Ottlilienfelds by the burgher Josef Anton Spindler, who also became the owner of the nearby ruined and also burnt-out complex of the original Minorite monastery of St. Michael. Perhaps this man had the house rebuilt in the late Baroque style. After Josef Anton, the house was inherited by his grandson Ignaz Spindler, who sold it in 1818 to Josef Schuldes, after whose death it was bought from his widowed wife in 1825 by Franziska Stamm. During the 19th century the house changed many other owners. During the second half of the 19th century, the house was renovated in the classical style, giving it essentially its present appearance. At the end of the 19th century, the house was used as a fashion shop by Wenzel Kirsch, a merchant and city councillor, who later took possession of the house in 1900 and carried out costly renovations. Wenzel Kirsch was an extremely active citizen, a member of several Kadan associations and also worked in Kadan as an agent for the Vienna insurance company Phönix. The last German owner of the house between 1924 and 1945 was Karl Bergner, a native of Kadan, who ran a hardware store in the house. He occupied the house with his wife Anna, née Schüh, who came from the village of Kojetín in the Kadan region. A son, Albin, was born to the Bergners in 1907 in house no. 50. As Germans, the family was expelled from Kadan on 23 August 1945 and forced to leave post-war Czechoslovakia. It is a two-storey brick building with an ornate baroque dormer, which is covered with a gabled roof.
Source:https://www.pamatkovykatalog.cz/dum-13337833
Source:https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%AFm_U_Zlat%C3%A9_kettle_(Kada%C5%88)
Impressions:Beautiful and richly decorated baroque building.
