Cellars in front of the Church of St. Michael

Every day he would descend the fourteen steps to the cold storage room with the pigs' halves to hang the meat on hooks.
  • 19th century

The cellars in front of St. Michael's Church are among the youngest underground spaces found under Dominican Square. They were probably built in the 19th century as a purpose-built storage space for the market shops that were located under the church ramp.
        
One of the owners of these cellars in the 20th century was the butcher Karel Novák, who in 1937 bought the shop as a "radigated slaughterhouse" and ran it with his wife Anna as "Karel Novák Butchery". Every morning at three o'clock he would leave in his carriage to Malhostovice to buy meat, and at five o'clock he would open his shop with the famous delicacies of this butcher's shop: foie gras, pressed meat and boiled pig's feet. Every day, he would descend the 14 steps to the cold store with the pigs' halves to hang the meat on the hooks, which are still in their original place after the cellar was reopened in 1999. After the concession was revoked in the 1950s, public toilets were installed in the premises and the cellar was probably walled up. After further use as a warehouse, a flower shop was opened here in 1974. Today, the space under the ramp is once again accessible and serves a variety of tenants as a gallery, retail space or as a café.

The cellars lying directly under a very busy street are in a surprisingly good technical condition, although for many years trams ran over them in the direction of Dominikánská - Zámečnická streets. Nevertheless, their masonry was repaired and the cellars were connected by the original staircase with a small warehouse in the shop. It is only a matter of time before these spaces will be used again by the public for social or cultural purposes.

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