PATRICIAN HOUSE NO. 4
Description
It is a two-storey front house with an inner courtyard. The façade has irregularly arranged windows and is topped by a gabled roof with seven dormers. The ground floor is separated from the upper floor by a pronounced cornice.
The ground floor is pierced by the entrance portal. To its left are two segmentally arched windows with flat keystones and one rectangular window. To the right of the portal is a semicircularly arched window set within a rectangular stucco frame.
On the upper floor there are four paired windows with Baroque-style framing and a blind arcade. The windows are separated by rusticated lesenes. Above them, on the mezzanine level, are four pairs of semicircular windows.
Architectural elements
The entrance corridor is covered by a relatively high ribbed vault. The rooms to the left are vaulted in the same manner. Access to the upper floor is provided by a turning staircase with a rising vault. The landing is covered by three irregular fields with ribbed vaults.
On the upper floor there is an internally chamfered, arched doorway that originally led to a now-vanished wooden gallery. The doorway leading to the attic is of the same design.
Gates
The richly carved entrance gates from 1700 represent an exceptionally valuable feature. The flat carving depicts stylised acanthus leaves, sunflower blossoms and grape clusters. The gates hang on pierced iron hinges and are reinforced with metal fittings decorated with acanthus leaves and a mascaron.
Portal
The Renaissance portal of the bench type with Attic articulation has its original console seats cut back. The Gothic archivolt is interrupted by a later keystone, above which a now illegible date is inscribed.
Ceiling
The Renaissance painted beam ceiling was discovered during renovation works in the 1990s. Until then, it had been concealed beneath a flat ceiling dating from the period after 1873. Today it forms part of a private apartment.
Connection between the Schlik and the Rosenbergs
On 8 July 1544, Peter V of Rosenberg appointed Count Albrecht of Guttenstein, Count Hieronymus Schlik of Passaun and Ulrich Holický of Sternberg as guardians of his nephews Wilhelm and Peter Wok. The Schlik family had already maintained good relations with the Rosenbergs when either Peter IV of Rosenberg or Jošt III of Rosenberg – possibly both – supported the Schlik at the Land Diet in the founding of Jáchymov and especially in obtaining the minting privilege.
In 1588, Emperor Rudolf II, on the advice of the supreme mining official and Prague mint master Lazarus Ercker of Schreckenfels, established in Jáchymov an office for purchasing silver ores and scrap silver. He entrusted the leadership of this office to Wilhelm of Rosenberg. Royal revenues increased by approximately 1,000 thalers annually as a result. The profit was divided equally between the monarch and the Rosenberg consortium. All towns in the Jáchymov district were subject to the purchase regulations. The sale of ore was not compulsory, but anyone who delivered ore in this way was exempt from paying the tithe.
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