Old Town Square

Old Town Square

Eliška Vavřinová1.6.2014

C3B

Content

1. Main information2. Historical events3. Old Town Hall4. Prague Astronomical clock5. Church of St. Nicholas6. Tyn Church7. Jan Hus monument8. Famous houses 9. Sources

Old Town Square

Main information• located between Wenceslas Square and the Charles

Bridge• center of the Old Town• the historic core • Royal road passes through here• National Historic Landmark

Historical events

• wide marketplace• Jan Želivský – executed - Hussite movement• 1621 – 27 men - leader of the Czech uprising • 1902 – manifestation - general suffrage

Old Town Hall

• Prague uprising• astronomical clock • gothic style • circular windows • pointed arches

Prague astronomical clock

• the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world

• medieval astronomical clock (1410)

• the oldest one still working

Church of St. Nicholas

• baroque style• Kilián Dientzenhofer• Czechoslovak Hussite Church• frescos, organ

Tyn Church

• 14th century – 16th century• Prague's most

important churches • architecture and

interiors

Jan Hus monument

• secession bronze monument

• Ladislav Šaloun (1915)• the fiftieth anniversary

of Jan Hus burned at the stake

Famous houses

House at the Stone Bell Tyn School

Famous houses

Storch house House in Minutes

Sources

• http://www.praguecityline.cz/prazske-pamatky/historie-staromestskeho-namesti

• http://www.praguecityline.cz/prazske-pamatky/staromestsky-orloj-%E2%80%93-historie

• http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starom%C4%9Bstsk%C3%A9_n%C3%A1m%C4%9Bst%C3%AD