A Jewish ghetto existed in Brno until the middle of the 15th century on the site of today's Franti\u0161kansk\u00e1 Street. It was a kind of \"city within a city\", and therefore there are many irregularities and disorder where the Jewish houses were connected to later buildings. This is exactly the impression of the place which, from the 18th century onwards, came to be called Roman Square because of its picturesque character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former house No. 495 was owned by the bookbinder Ign\u00e1c Sklepniczka from 1849. He also set up a pub here, which was run by the innkeeper Sokoll. The name of the pub \"Uhersk\u00e9ho namlouv\u00e1n\u00ed\" was created as a proof of the friendly and cordial relations between the owner of the house and the innkeeper, who, after Mr. Sklepniczka had wooed the fair maiden Victoria in \"Pre\u0161purk\" and brought her to Brno, welcomed them with this name on the new signboard of the inn. This inn used to have many regular guests from good bourgeois circles. At the turn of the century, under the innkeeper Hugo Bulka, the pub was called \"U dob\u00e9ho kamar\u00e1da\" (At a Good Friend). The house was not damaged during the Second World War, yet it was demolished in 1952, so that the whole group of houses in the northern part disappeared and the Roman Square lost its unique atmosphere.
In 1997, the northern part of the square was surveyed and the underground of the former pub was discovered. The cellars of Gothic origin were built to three levels. From the largest room in the middle level, it was possible to descend by stairs to the lowest part, in which a stone well was located. It dates back to the 13th century and is the oldest, relatively precisely dated, building of its kind in Brno. It was incorporated into the cellar system afterwards, but originally it reached the surface of the medieval terrain. A number of ceramic jugs and parts of wooden vessels from the second half of the 13th century were found at its bottom. The cellar is now accessible only through a cast-iron hatch from the square.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gothic cellars were built to three levels.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historie-brnenskeho-podzemi","tag-14-stoleti"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n