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walking trails around town Beroun TOURIST GUIDE • ADULT • BEROUNreally gets me DOSPĚLÍDOSPELÍ • ADULT• ADULT Trasa TrasaA historická A – historická Trail ARoute historical A – historical Trasa TrasaB poznávací B – poznávací Trail BRoute sightseeing B – cognitive 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 m Trasa TrasaC turistická C – turistická © Map Design & , 2015 – www.mapdesign.eu Trail CRoute tourist C – tourist 5 BEROUN really gets me BEROUN Na Nové, 69 Husovo Square really gets me A 14th century burgher’s house. Also called Na Nové according to a former inn. In the 16th century, the This guide will lead you to Beroun’s most impor- trails according to the kind of places you would house owner, Matěj Střelec, a burgomaster of Beroun, tant cultural sites and historical buildings, as well like to visit. There is a historical, educational and used to make fi rearms here and ran an inn called as to other, no less interesting places, such as Za- tourist trail. Take a trip to see the sights of Be- U Střelců. In 1781, soldiers of the Kallenberg regiment jíček Mill, the Jewish cemetery and a bunker. The roun. Besides learning lots of new information, were accommodated in the house and at Christmas, trail is suitable not only for adults but also for fa- you will also visit some more remote but more while looking for tobacco stored in the attic, they milies with children. You can select from several picturesque recesses of the town. started a fi re due to their carelessness. House No. 69 and the town hall burned down. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, tobacco was grown under site number Trail A historical Trail D for the youngest state supervision in the vicinity of Beroun. Trail B sightseeing Trail E for older ADULT Town Hall, 68 Husovo Square trail colour Trail C tourist CHILDREN Trail F for strong „A multi-storey building covered with clay tiles with town hall taproom, the centre of which features a mig- List of sites a large brick gable on the front face, with a colour hty marble column supporting the arched vaulting. On picture of the municipal emblem on it“, that is the ol- the upper fl oor there was a big council hall and the so- 1 | Na Nové ........................................./page 5/ 23 | Zajíček Mill .................................../page 15/ dest description of the Town Hall, dating back to the -called green room, padded with green cloth and clad 2 | Town Hall......................................./page 5/ 24 | The Berounka River ......................./page 15/ early 16th century. It was built on the site of two hou- in oak planks. In the yard of the town hall there was 3 | The Prague Gate (Lower Gate) ......../page 6/ 25 | Flood-control facilities ................../page 16/ ses, parts of the Gothic cellars of which have been pre- a horse stable, chicken run, malt house, and the muni- 4 | Municipal Fortifi cations ................../page 7/ 26 | Light fortifi cation (pillbox) ............/page 16/ served. The old village mayor’s residence was in one of cipal prison. There structures were damaged by fi res in 5 | House No. 77, Husovo Square ......../page 7/ 27 | Weir and small hydro power plant ... /page 17/ these houses. This construction was destroyed by fi re 1599 and 1735. After the fi re in 1735, the builder Vác- 6 | U Černého orla .............................../page 8/ 28 | Dusl’s villa ..................................../page 17/ in 1544. A new town hall in the Renaissance style was lav Bíšovec constructed a new town hall in the Baroque 7 | Czech Court .................................../page 8/ 29 | House No. 64, Husovo Square ...... /page 18/ built in 1560–1564 by the stonemason Jiří Táborský. style. The town hall underwent another restoration af- 8 | Jenštejnský House .........................../page 8/ 30 | House No. 20, Pictures on its green-painted gables were painted by ter a fi re in 1781. We can see its appearance in 1781 in 9 | Salátovský House ............................/page 9/ Politických vězňů Street ................. /page 18/ Jan of Prague. On the roof there was a small tower with old photographs. In 1867, the municipal offi ce moved 10 | Frišmanovský House ......................./page 9/ 31 | Monument to the Victims the town hall and bailiff bell. Golden-plated imperial from the town hall to the Municipal House U Černého 11 | U Tří korun ...................................../page 9/ of the Second World War ............../page 18/ eagles were seated on the gables and the tower. On the koně (At the Black Horse) and a boys’ school was si- 12 | The Pilsner Gate (Upper Gate) ......./page 10/ 32 | City Cinema ................................./page 19/ ground fl oor there was an arched „Maßhaus“ of the tuated in the building; later it housed the barracks of 13 | St James Church ........................... /page 11/ 33 | The Old Post Offi ce ...................... /page 19/ the provincial defence force. A costly reconstruction of 14 | Plague Column ............................./page 11/ 34 | Jungmann Elementary School ......../page 19/ the old town hall was carried out in 1903. According 15 | Deanery Premises ........................./page 12/ 35 | The Church of the Annunciation ..../page 20/ to the plans of the Beroun native František Coufal, the 16 | The Museum of Beroun Pottery ..... /page 12/ 36 | Plzeňka House of Culture ............../page 20/ main building with the front facing the square was re- 17 | House No. 41, Husovo Square ......./page 13/ 37 | The Jewish Cemetery ...................../page 21/ built in the Neo-Baroque style. The main building was 18 | House No. 43, Husovo Square ...... /page 13/ 38 | Town Mountain ............................/page 21/ decorated by the sculptor Vilém Amort. He used local 19 | Monument to Master Jan Hus ....... /page 13/ 39 | The Talich tourist path ................../page 22/ motifs, trilobites and the Klepáček dwarf to decorate 20 | Monument to soldiers 40 | Talich’s villa ................................../page 22/ the representative rooms. The rear section, which used killed in the First World War ........../page 14/ 41 | Observation tower on Děd hill ......./page 23/ to serve as a brewery, was demolished and a new buil- 21 | Fountain with a sculpture 42 | The Chapel ding was constructed in its place. Another renovation of St Jan Nepomucký..................... /page 14/ of the Virgin Mary of Sorrows ......../page 23/ of the town hall was carried out in 1998. The premises 22 | Čertovka Race ............................../page 14/ 43 | Municipal Cemetery ...................../page 23/ were supplemented with a glazed wing. 6 walking trails for ADULT 7 BEROUN really gets me The Prague Gate (Lower Gate) Municipal Fortifi cations Being virtually a copy of the Pilsner Gate opposite, the The fortifi cations of Beroun are an exceptional relic pleted with a 90 cm high bailey wall and a moat. Its Prague or Lower Gate reinforced the defence system of of medieval fortifi cations in Bohemia. They were built depth was up to 8 metres and was from 11 metres the city on the eastern side. The provincial road from under the reign of Wenceslas II. They surrounded the wide in the east up to 17 metres wide in the south- Prague, which crossed the bridge over the Berounka town and had a total length of 1170 metres. The height -west. The fortifi cations of Beroun had their fi rst test river, led to it. This road was re-laid beyond the ram- of the walls ranged from 9 metres on the north and of endurance just one hundred year after being built, parts on the northern side of the city after 1842. The north-western side of the city to 6.5 metres on the in April 1421, when the city was besieged by Jan Žiž- dimensions of the gate are 10.3 x 9.3 metres and the banks of the Berounka and Litavka rivers. The width ka. The city fortifi cations were renovated in the 16th wall is 2.3 metres thick. The gate was closed using of the wall was 2 metres at the foot and 1 metre at century due to the increased utilisation of fi re guns. a double-winged gate and, if necessary, using a sliding the crest. It was topped by an ambit and a wall with Bastions were rebuilt and loopholes for muskets were grid – a comb. In the Middle Ages, the tower was ente- battlements. The fortifi cations were supported by built into the fortifi cation wall. In subsequent centu- red on the southern side from the rampart ambit. As in the gate opposite, the entrance was situated 2.5 metres maged several times. In 1421, the gate and the adjacent above the rampart for reasons of defence. A ladder had fortifi cations were subject to a successful main attack to be used to climb up to the small entrance portal. by the Hussite army led by Jan Žižka. Its condition in Rooms on the fl oors can be reached via the original 1845 was so poor that councillors considered demo- staircase within the wall. In the passage arc there is lishing it. Fortunately, it was merely repaired. Only the a defensive circular opening and also in the passage foregate was removed. The current shape of the gate there is the entrance to the gate, which was built in the dates back to 1893. Rooms in the gate were occupied 19th century. The upper fl oor was reconstructed in the by the gatekeeper in the Middle Ages. Then the muni- 16th century. The battlement was bricked in and the cipal prison was situated here and in the 20th century hip roof was built. Defences of the gate were strengthe- the municipal archive was located here. The exhibition ned by the square foregate. The gate was seriously da- gallery of Jiří Jeníček is currently situated here. 37 prismatic towers opened to the city. 20 of them ries, the fortifi cations of Beroun were saved from any have been preserved to this day.