Millesimovský palác v Panské Palace

The Millesimovský palace stands on Panská street in Nové Město in Prague. It is a single-storey classicist building of palatial type and is protected as a cultural monument. It is also called the Lämel palace, Prager Tagblatt, or the house At the Three Black Stars. Each of these names recalls a different chapter of its history.

The first mention of the plot dates from 1377. There was then a garden of a burgher Conrad Hauser's house. In the fifteenth century, five small houses were built on the parcel. The corner one belonged to Henry of Dubé, the highest court master of King George of Poděbrady. Other houses were owned by the Kolovrat family of Bezdružice and they rebuilt them in the Renaissance style. Between 1570 and 1600, the house was called At the Three Black Stars and belonged to Albert Kolovrat of Kraków and Hynek Valdstein of Vranów.

In 1648, the house was damaged by Swedish bombardment. In 1690, Countess Johanna Barbara Eusebia Carretto-Cavriani of Millesimo acquired it in the early Baroque form, and the palace is named after her to this day. She connected it with her neighbouring houses. In 1699, her two sons divided the property, the older stepbrother John Ignatius and the younger biological brother John Bernard.

During the siege of Prague by the Prussian army in 1757, the houses suffered further damage. Subsequently, Count Adolf of Kounic united them into a single classicist building. His grandson sold the house in 1860 to Sophia von Lämel. She fundamentally rebuilt it according to the design of architect Vojtech Ignatius Ullmann and added a carriage house, a stable and a warehouse.

In 1905 and 1906, Matěj Blecha built a two-storey administrative building for the German newspaper Prager Tagblatt in the back part of the parcel. After 1929, a printing plant of the company J. Mercy and son was added to it. In the editorial offices of the newspaper, journalists Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Alfred Polgar, Joseph Roth and Johannes Urzidil worked between 1914 and 1939. Among the contributors were also Martin Feuchtwanger and Alfred Döblin.

However, the future of the palace is uncertain. The student project Prague Monument Reality at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences included it along with other neighbouring palaces among buildings threatened with destruction.

Other aristocratic residences also stand on Panská street. These include the Kounický palace, which houses the Alphonse Mucha Museum, further the Neubergovský palace and the palace of Riesum of Stallburg.