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Monument: townhouse

Townhouse in Kežmarok is an important cultural monument, located in the centre of the village. This article focuses on the history and architecture of this house, which was built in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The house was a typical crossing house, which was located on a plot with a high stone wall. It was a block multi-storey building, situated on a plot with a high stone wall as a rule as part of it in the line of a building block, street, square.

The chamber house had a simple longitudinal floor plan and was extremely convenient to expand the buildings on mostly narrow medieval plots. It was a continuous space in the width of the whole plot, the so-called hall, which was used mainly as an operating space in the implementation of crafts.

In the 17th and especially in the 18th century there was an increased interest of nobility in the city, which related to its functions in the county or military administration. The noble house was bought next to each other - sometimes two to three plots - and it was rebuilt into representative buildings.

Pavlačové houses were characterized by a closed layout of a four-winged block with a central courtyard, accessible through two opposite crossings, to which were opened three- to four-storey facades with orbiting spiders, making available individual apartments.

Houses of poverty, iron houses were on the outskirts of the city, often forming part of the walls. They represented the existential minimum.

The original objects were modernized mainly in the parter. Many retained their original functional use (trade), but the sales method was more oriented towards advertising.

The function of housing remained in originally residential burgher houses until today, only the requirements of the standard of housing changed.

Sources:

* Collection of authors: Presentation of architectural heritage II. Bratislava. Perfect 2008. * Dvořáková, V.- Kollár, D.: Cultural beauty of Slovakia, the most beautiful cities. Bratislava. Dajama 2007. * Botecký, A.- Kvasni, M.: Architectural-historical research. Bratislava. 2009 * http://www.horehronskemuzeum.sk/burghiansky-dom * http://www.nitra.sk/?id menu=3844&limited level=1&stop menu=33881