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Secondary parcelling of the New Town of Prague and its development in Nekázanka Street No. 887 / II

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020

Abstract

The complete reconstruction of one of the last buildings of the pre-remediation development paved the way for a deeper study of the secondary parcelling of the New Town during the High Middle Ages and the Modern Age, for which Nekázanka Street is a typical example. The street itself is probably laid out during the second half of the 14th century during the reparcelling of this part of the New Town.

The building in question consists of two relatively shallow plots. The smaller one in the south is built up with a depth-oriented wing, the larger width-oriented one was created by combining several New Town plots and houses after the fire of the town in 1756.

The sala terrena of the Kounický Palace was then built in their place. Research in the courtyard of the building - the garden revealed the genesis of medieval and modern terrain, where we can determine the beginning of the use of the area, which is a fragment of medieval stratigraphy from the second half of the 14th century represented by a part of a sunken makeshift.

The paved area, which closes the rise of the terrain, is probably related to the development of development on the plot, when it was on the site of today's garden in 15/16. century space for the functional background of five burgher houses, which were oriented towards today's street. During the complete reconstruction of the building in the 18th century into the rear wing of Kounic's palace, this space was used as a functional background for the construction site, and after the reconstruction itself, it was completely covered with clay layers for landscaping.