Edelmann's palace

The entrance house portal was one of the important architectural elements of its time. Very important. He connected the exterior with the interior of the building and encouraged the visitor to enter the building. The motifs used on the portal, often very complex, expressed a deeper meaning than just decorative. For example, the heads of lions or figures of gunmen symbolized the security of the house. Logically, coats of arms belonged to the owner of the house, quotes again represented his attitude to the world. The more affluent the builder, the opulent decor, and not just portals for its great assets.

The beautiful Renaissance palace from 1586 was built by the then powerful and rich burgher and Olomouc mayor Václav Edelman of Brosdorf. The interior was preserved only on the ground floor and partly on the first floor. The exterior has undergone a number of changes over time, but fortunately the facade has been largely preserved. An important part of the facade are also reliefs with Christian motifs and stone ornaments from the workshop of Michael Kromer. After a while, the Edelman family fell into oblivion and the palace passed under various owners among the most important ones, we could mention the city itself, which moved the town hall here for a while, or accommodated the commanders of the city fortress, who for some time was the famous Marshal Radecký. Today, the palace houses offices and businesses.

On the upper and lower squares of Olomouc there are buildings with a rich history, which appealed to you even if they do not have a mouth.

One of the most beautiful facades, decorating the Upper Square, belongs to the palace of Edelmann. The main facade of the palace goes to the north side of the square, opposite the Hercules Fountain. The palace was built in the late 16th century, presumably in 1586, for the mayor of Václav Edelmann. Originally the building was three-story, but later an additional fourth floor was added. The windows of the second and third floors are decorated with bas-reliefs depicting different subjects of the Old and New Testaments. The gates of the palace are decorated with a decorative arch, in the upper part of which the family emblem of the Edelmanns is depicted. In 1719, the palace passed under the jurisdiction of local city authorities, who used it to accommodate various city services. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the palace served as the residence of the commandants of the Olomouc fortress. A memorial plaque is attached to the facade of the building in honor of the presence in its walls of the commandant Václav Radetzky, one of the most distinguished commanders of the Austrian army of his time.

The Palace of V. Edelmann of Brosdorf is a Renaissance building completed in 1572. It has beautiful preserved reliefs with biblical themes. Of interest is the memorial plaque placed here in honor of the famous military leader Radecký, who protected Olomouc from occupation by the Prussian army.

The Renaissance palace was built by the burgher Václav Edelmann in 1572-1586. It was created by joining two original Gothic objects. The palace is two floors. The whole ground floor is largely vaulted by barrel vaults. The roofs are gabled, the roof is made up of standing stools. Facade to Horní nám. is a five-axis historicizing with Renaissance reliefs. The ground floor has been modernized and the main Renaissance portal has been preserved. The semicircular vaulted inlet is lined with pilasters, archivolta is marked with gems. Two male characters with helmets in exercises. Upstairs on the left side are two composite windows, semicircular vaulted, lined with profiled pattern with ornament, half-column with Ionic head in the middle, plinths under the lining and window sills have a plastic frieze. In the middle of the front floor of the first floor is a Renaissance loggia, consisting of two semicircular, additionally walled arcades, supported by semi-columns with volute warheads. Archivolts are profiled with a middle gemstone. Above the semi-columns are drawn volute brackets carrying the cornice, leaf exercises in leaf reliefs. Below the half-columns there are plinths with a frieze, in the parapet part separated by a continuous cornice there are four stone reliefs. The windows are semicircular vaulted, lined with profiled jambs. In the right part of the front floor of the first floor, the window is semicircular vaulted and designed in the same way as the previous one. The facade is divided by fine hanging. The second floor repeats the basic solution of the first floor, only the stonework of the individual articles is different. The stone-walled loggia sill is fitted with stone reliefs. The third floor has two associated windows in the lower-floor axis, semicircular vaulted, lined with a flat profiled jamb with a pillar in the middle, without Renaissance details. The facade is terminated by a hanging cantilevered cornice, perched on acanthus gems. The facade is decorated with a family emblem. In 1816, Field Marshal Jan Josef Václav Radecký stayed here, whose commemorative plaque resembles the first floor. Reliefs under the Old and New Testament windows are the work of Michael Kromer.