Ornate sgraffito ornamentation above a window in the Renaissance façade of Stárkuv dum (Starek’s House), in Pražská ulice, Tábor, South Bohemia, Czechia, first mentioned in 1526, then again in 1570 when its owners, the Hrosek family of Trkov, commissioned its rich decoration.
Tábor, South Bohemia, Czechia: 1500s Renaissance sgraffito façade of Stárkuv dum (Starek’s House), in Pražská ulice, Tábor lies 88 km (55 miles) south of Prague. It has numerous Renaissance buildings and associations with the Hussite Christian movement. Hussites broke with Rome in using Czech liturgy and administering Holy Communion, both bread and wine, to the laity. Hussites took their name from Jan Hus, a religious reformer who was martyred in 1416. Huss’s followers included a radical party whose main centre was at Usti, a small town to which they gave the name of the mountain where Christ was transfigured, Tabor. In 1420, the leader of the ‘Taborites’, Jan Žižka of Trocnov, founded the present Tábor, 4 km (2 1/2 miles) to the north of the former Tábor. The main square in Tábor is named after Jan Žižka. The Taborite movement died out in the 1430s, but the town which Žižka had founded lived on as a royal town after 1437. The castle was later converted into a brewery.
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Location: Stárkuv dum, Starek’s House, Pražská ulice, Prague Street, Tábor, South Bohemia, Czechia
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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