Around Špilberk Hill

The trail starts on Pellicova Street, which in the first decades of the 20th century witnessed the construction of several interesting apartment buildings, including a double house by architects Karel Hugo Kepka and Vladimír Fischer and numerous remarkable examples of rental housing by the builders František Uherka and František Valenta. We continue along the south-western edge of Špilberk towards Gorazdova Street, past František Falkovský’s distinctive apartment building on Úvoz, until we reach the Moravian Central Women’s Refuge, which combines elements of the Czech Renaissance with Art Nouveau ornamentation. From here, we backtrack to the apartment buildings by Anton Jelinek and Vladimír Fischer on Údolní Street before continuing to the foot of Žlutý kopec (Yellow Hill), where the German civil servants’ quarter known as the ‘Beamtenheim’ began to take shape in the late 19th century; this book covers the later phase of its development. The tour of the villa district can be extended by a visit to the remarkable cisterns on top of the hill.
From the cisterns, we can descend back down to Úvoz Street on the western flank of Špilberk Hill. Today, the magnificent character of new residential quarter that was developed here in the early 20th century is significantly disrupted by a busy four-lane road. The final stop on the tour is a nurses’ residence with a cloister by architect Vladimír Fischer, which today serves as Building L of St. Anne’s University Hospital, located by the entrance from Mendlovo náměstí (Mendel Square).

Lucie Valdhansová

Name
Around Špilberk Hill

Length
KM

Number of objects
17

Trail Starts Here
Pellicova 23

First object
House of Zdeněk Elger of Elgenfeld
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