Basic information
Edelmann’s Renaissance Palace stands on the Upper Square (Horní náměstí), opposite the northern facade of the Town Hall. It was created in the years 1572-1586 by combining two Gothic houses for a leading citizen and an alderman, Václav Edelmann. This two-story house has a richly decorated facade. The triangular segments above the arches of built-in loggias are decorated with a floral ornament, below the window sills there are stone reliefs of biblical scenes. The entrance portal bears the coat of arms of the Edelmann family and symbolized portraits of Václav Edelmann and his son.
In 1719 the palace became a city property. Fortress commanders, including the Field Marshal Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky, began dwelling here from 1816. A commemorative plaque was placed on the front facade of the palace in his honour in the year 1892.
An annex of a rear block with a side wing and the main staircase was carried out for the needs of the relocated Town Hall in the years 1850-1853. A reconstruction of the palace in a historicist style was carried out between the years of 1869 and 1871.