Rumpál’s House in Prachatice

The Renaissance bourgeois house is located on the Great Square and is part of an extensive building complex constructed in the mid-15th century. Rumpál's House is one of the historically most valuable buildings in the town’s heritage conservation area.

The house is adorned with Renaissance sgraffito decoration, executed in the technique of brick-red and brown sgraffito, with a lower layer of gray-blue plaster showing through, featuring engraved lines highlighted in red. Notable among the decorations are five Landsknecht figures, a term used for soldiers. Each soldier is depicted in a different role: a piper, a drummer with a soldier wielding a sword, a standard-bearer with a marshal's staff, a soldier with a spear and a lion's head, and around the corner, a soldier and a jester with a tankard. Between the windows, there is a frieze depicting a battle between ancient horsemen and foot soldiers. Around the corner, under the soldier and jester with the tankard, is an image of a sleeping general in a field tent with additional tents. Zoomorphic mythical figures are also depicted between the arches, representing mythical creatures in animal shapes.

After 1671, the city established a brewery in the house, with a later addition of a malting house.

Contact Information:

• Rumpál's House
• Velké nám. 41, 383 01 Prachatice
• Tel.: +420 388 607 574
• Email: infocentrum@prachatice.eu
• visit.prachatice.eu