usedlost Žitná a vila Mrázovka Homestead

The estate Žitná and the neighbouring villa Zuzanka, also known as Mrázovka, forms a monument protected complex in Prague 6 in Dejvice in Šárecký valley. Originally a Baroque object was created by joining several older vineyards before 1667. Over the centuries, it has undergone numerous building modifications and changes to owners. Remarkable is that a painted beam ceiling has been preserved in it. After the collapse of the original building, its descriptive number had to be transferred to a newly built Neo-Renaissance villa.

Before 1667, the Old Town Town Man Jiří Šmejdíř merged three old vineyards into one whole with a size of 19 strychelles. It also included a grafting plant with an area of 2.5 cm. During the time of the settlement, the Czech countries recovered from the devastating effects of the Thirty Years' War under the influence of reCatholics and the advent of an early baroque. Europe was going through a period of absolutist governments and major scientific discoveries. Later construction and development took place in the nineteenth century at the time of the Czech national revival and industrial revolution.

The original economic and residential estate was gradually supplemented by cellars and presses. Part of the complex was also the Neo-Renaissance Villa, built in the garden at the end of the nineteenth century. Part of the building fund has retained historical elements including valuable painted beam ceiling. The original descriptive number from the decrepit old building was officially transferred to the new villa.

The owner of the estate was Jiří Šmejdíř before 1667. After his death, the widow married an old town townsman named George Žitník. In 1727, a baker and an old-town townsman Augustin Buchta bought the farm. From 1877 to 1885, Žitnou was held by Chief Engineer in Prague František Mráz.

The key events include the connection of the three old vineyards by Jiří Šjedíř before 1667 and the purchase of the estate by the baker Augustine Buchta in 1727. To the inventory at that time was a residential building, press, gardens, fields, soccer fields, two beehives and an economic building with cows. At the end of the eighteenth century, the field had an area of 6 mornings and a garden of 1 morrow. The stable register of 1840 had already registered 9 mornings of land divided into 5 fields, 2 gardens, vineyards, 7 pastures and a journey. In 1846, another owner bought the land and built the estate. In 1872, a new house with a descriptive number 132 grew on a separate part of the garden. Between 1877 and 1885, the engineer František Mráz had a Neo-Renaissance villa built by Zuzanka.

After 2000 the estate underwent a successful reconstruction and was redesigned for living. It is located in the Šárecký valley in close proximity to the nature park of Wild Šárka and other historical settlements and villas.

This monument is a valuable example of the historical development of suburban agriculture and building changes in Prague's Dejvice from Baroque to nineteenth century. The visit to the Šárecký Valley offers an opportunity to recognize this successfully renovated monument and to remember the ancient form of the Prague landscape.