Radnice (Vyškov-Město) Town hall

The Renaissance Town Hall in Vyškov is a dominant building with a tower standing on the historic square in the village Vyškov-Město. It was built in 1569 in the Renaissance style. Its 57.33 m tall tower, to which 152 stairs lead the dome, took today's form after reconstruction in 1945. The construction represents an important symbol of the city administration. In the ground floor of the building, the remains of the original Renaissance arch have been preserved until today.

The original medieval town hall used to stand on the square in No. 32 opposite today's building and had a city brewery in the yard. This old building was missing a tower, consisting of three rooms and windows facing the square. During the flowering of Vyškov in the 16th century, the townspeople decided to build a new town hall, which started in 1568. The creation of the building falls within the period when the Czech and Moravian townspeople experienced economic boom and cultural development under the influence of Renaissance humanism. The Moravian cities often fell under the direct administration of Olomouc bishops.

With the intention of building a new town hall, the townspeople turned to Olomouc Bishop Vilem Prusinovsky of Víckov asking permission to break the limestone in the quarry near Hlučák, who then belonged to the monastery in Old Brno. The construction was completed in a year. A city emblem was placed above the entrance in the Renaissance frame with 1569 right next to the emblem of Olomouc bishops. The tower was originally finished by a gallery made of sandstone frames with trimmings of seconds' heads and had a pit with a gallery formed in three floors with a narrow tip on top. In 1570, the townspeople were given the right to seal the town hall with red wax. The first preserved picture of the town hall is the rare wood carving of Jan Willenberg from 1593 with an area of only seven square centimeters. It captures an object from the north on the front page of the work of Bartholomew Paprocký Mirror of the famous Margrave of Moravia. Between 1969 and 1970, the Town Hall Tower had been repaired by plaster. In this case, the grafted plaster was used by caressing the masonry spoon in the usual manner used in the Renaissance. In 2006, the façade coating was modified and on 13 October 2007 a new bead with the package with the next generation reference was ceremonially placed on the dome.

The object is owned by the town of Vyškov. The history of the town hall is linked to a number of dramatic events, including the explosion of gunpowder and devastating fires, after which the building had to be repaired repeatedly.

The key moment in the history of the building was the night of August 7 to 8, 1609, when lightning struck the town hall around midnight in a big storm. Two tons of gunpowder were stored in the basement at the time. Their blast blew up the tower and three adjacent houses, killed three people and buried two others in rubble. After this disaster, the town hall was only repaired in 1613. The Magistrate's Office then placed a commemorative plaque with German text, which remained here until 1818. Another disaster was the years 1753 and 1754, when two devastating fires hit the city and city hall. The former tower gallery became a flat roof with metal cover after the fire, in which the town hall lasted 131 years. In 1884, the exec builder Peter Burg made radical modifications to the town hall tower. He added a new floor above the clock floor with rectangular segmented windows and the tower covered the helmet in the form of a helmet with a needle. The city and city hall were hit by another big fire on May 21, 1917, followed by a meeting of the city council and the repair of destroyed roofs, ceilings and official rooms. During the war events in 1945, the tower was damaged so badly that it had to be renovated. It has acquired its present form with a smaller cubus, a gallery, a helmet and a rudder, with cymbals from 1753 still preserved on the tower.

Today, this Renaissance monument serves as a major dominant of the historical square in Vyšková-Town and reminds of the rich history of local government. The visit to this building offers a unique opportunity to see with your own eyes a historic building with moved fates and climb the Town Hall Tower.