"The stone fountain is a work located on Rejsková náměstí in Kutná Hora. It is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
The fountain was probably built by the master Briccius Gauske in 1493–1495 (Matěj Rejsek was previously considered to be the builder of the fountain). The construction was financed by Jan Smíšek from Vrchovišť, the owner of Hrádek. It is a richly decorated stone twelve-sided prism in the Late Gothic style. According to old descriptions, it originally had Attic railings and a high hexagonal roof, and was probably decorated with several sculptures on consoles. The builder captured the relationship of the inhabitants to the precious water, which in the Middle Ages had to be brought to the city through several kilometers of wooden pipes.
The fountain served as a drinking water reservoir until 1890. It was restored by Ludvík Lábler in 1887–1890.
Kutná Hora (Czech pronunciation: [ˈkutnaː ˈɦora]; medieval Czech: Hory Kutné; German: Kuttenberg) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 21,000 inhabitants. The centre of Kutná Hora, including the Sedlec Abbey and its ossuary, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 because of its outstanding architecture and its influence on subsequent architectural developments in other Central European city centres. Since 1961, the town centre is also protected by law as an urban monument reservation, the fourth largest in the country.
Kutná Hora is located about 52 kilometres (32 mi) east of Prague. The eastern part of the municipal territory lies in a flat agricultural landscape of the Central Elbe Table lowland. The western part lies in the Upper Sázava Hills and includes the highest point of Kutná Hora, the hill Malý Kuklík at 359 m (1,178 ft) above sea level. The Vrchlice Stream flows through the town.
Bohemia (Latin Bohemia, German Böhmen, Polish Czechy) is a region in the west of the Czech Republic. Previously, as a kingdom, they were the center of the Czech Crown. The root of the word Czech probably corresponds to the meaning of man. The Latin equivalent of Bohemia, originally Boiohaemum (literally "land of Battles"), which over time also influenced the names in other languages, is derived from the Celtic tribe of the Boios, who lived in this area from the 4th to the 1st century BC Bohemia on it borders Germany in the west, Austria in the south, Moravia in the east and Poland in the north. Geographically, they are bounded from the north, west and south by a chain of mountains, the highest of which are the Krkonoše Mountains, in which the highest mountain of Bohemia, Sněžka, is also located. The most important rivers are the Elbe and the Vltava, with the fertile Polabean Plain extending around the Elbe. The capital and largest city of Bohemia is Prague, other important cities include, for example, Pilsen, Karlovy Vary, Kladno, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, Hradec Králové, Pardubice and České Budějovice, Jihlava also lies partly on the historical territory of Bohemia." – info from Wikipedia.
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Posted by Billy Wilson Photography on 2024-04-04 10:25:46
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