Palác Aventin Palace

Palác Aventin stands in Purkinov Street on New Town of Prague and is also known as Zedwitz Palace or Zedtwitz Palace. The name Aventinum bears according to the publishing house, which was based here among the world's wars and left a mark in the awareness of the Prague cultural public.

The history of the building dates back to the 15th century, when there was a medieval house in the immediate vicinity of the former Jewish cemetery. Over the centuries, the construction has undergone successive reconstructions corresponding to changes in architectural styles - Renaissance, Baroque and later classical modifications. In 1707, a reference to the above-ground part, built by Karel Arnešt von Bissinger, appeared for the first time in the written records. A more fundamental change came in 1803, when the construction had a complete reconstruction according to the design of architect Ignác Palliardi.

By 1814, the shape of the period springs were crystallized. It was a well-built house with two floors. There was a basement in the ground floor, on the ground floor there was a room for the janitor, a road and a stable for two horses, a master's kitchen and a shed. The first floor had six rooms and two rooms, the second floor had five Mansard rooms. Part of the construction was supposed to be a semi-circular gazebo called a chapel or a gloriette, which was probably part of Palliardi's architecture.

In 1911, the house became the property of the lawyer JUDr. Zikmund, who adapted it to his needs and arranged it as an office connected by a bunk bed. Among the world's wars, there was the Aventinum Publishing House, which also made the palace a cultural centre. The exhibition hall called the Aventine Mansard, which hosted the personalities of the Czech art avant-garde and became an important meeting place for the creators.

In the 1980s, the Slovak Culture Centre in Prague was located here. In 1989, the new owner Vladimir Malínský took the house, under which the construction underwent several minor repairs. A substantial reconstruction and modernization took place between 2006 and 2007, while maintaining the original baroque spatial solution and a number of Gothic elements that survived from the depths of years. The building remains part of the dense surrounding building of the New Town and represents a typical example of Prague architecture with its layered history.