Staletá Praha 33, 2/2017

St. Clement Dominican monastery in the Old Town of Prague

Jan Havrda, Miroslav Kovář, Anna Žďárská

Staletá Praha 33, 2/2017, 2-73 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.2.01  

The appearance of what may have been the earliest mendicant convent in Prague has, to date, been uknown. This article presents, for the first time, its groundplan and structural development. This important Bohemian Dominican monastery was founded after the arrival of the Friars Preachers to Prague after 1225. The Dominicans first settled at the ancient church of St. Clement at Poříčí, situated at the north-east edge of the Prague medieval agglomeration. After several years they moved to a more convenient site of St. Clement church by the Judith bridge, where they built a convent. Its existence was until recently known only from written evidence, since...

Revising the later building phases of the Church of the Virgin Mary at Prague Castle/Hradčany

Jana Maříková-Kubková, Iva Herichová

Staletá Praha 33, 2/2017, 74-93 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.2.02  

The Church of the Virgin Mary at Prague Castle has repeatedly attracted deserved attention and its understanding is a key to the study of a fundamental break in the history of the Prague basin and of the whole of Bohemia. This break is represented by the adoption of Christianity and the formation of a centre of both ecclesiastical and political power at Prague Castle. Research has therefore mostly concentrated on the first building phase of the church, while the younger early Romanesque adaptation was ignored, although it bears a no less important message. We can connect these building activities with the erection of the Romanesque Basilica and the...

Comparison between the burial grounds on the right bank of the Prague pre-location agglomeration in the 9th and 10th century and the burial ground in the Clementinum area
Zum Begraben im rechtsufrigen Teil der VorlokationsAgglomeration Prags im 9. und 10. Jahrhundert. Das Gräberfeld im Areal des Prager Klementinums

Jan Havrda, Anna Žďárská

Staletá Praha 33, 2/2017, 94-134 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.2.03  

Early medieval burial areas on the right bank of the Vltava river in the historic centre of Prague present the earliest evidence of the early medieval human activities in this part of the Prague basin. This article offers an overview of the earliest known burial grounds in this area with greater attention paid to the funeral areas on the lowest terrace level. The newly discovered burial ground at the western part of the Karlova street is described in detail. Altogether 11 graves were revealed, some of them with grave goods and jewellery. On four selected graves 14C dating was applied and comparison with contemporary cemeteries in the Prague basin regarding...

Marginal notes to the building development of St. Michael's church in Prague-Old Town
Randbemerkungen zur Bauentwicklung der Kirche d. hl. Michael in Prag-Altstadt

Tomasz Cymbalak, Miroslav Kovář

Staletá Praha 33, 2/2017, 135-151 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.2.04  

The article briefly summarises current knowledge of the building development of one of the most important ecclesiastic buildings at Prague-Old Town. Archaeological excavations in the interior and the closest surroundings of St. Michael's church revealed evidence of several phases of its building modifications. The first building phase is represented by a single nave church with an apsis, altered several times in the following medieval period, with radical Baroque transformation and subsequent adaptations resulting into current state of the church. The latest survey of the evolution of the western tribune of the Romanesque sanctuary is presented in...

Unknown air raid shelter in Prague 6-Bubeneč

Michal Bureš, Jan Pařez

Staletá Praha 33, 2/2017, 152-164 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2017.2.05  

This article presents a recent archaeological find of an unknown subterranean air raid shelter in Prague Bubeneč, with preserved original furniture and technologies including a filter device against fighting gases. This shelter was originally connected with a currently partially blocked corridor leading to a neighbouring house. Bulgarian graffiti from 1954-1972 were found on the walls. Among other artefacts, two unusual tin disc items were found, with Chinese signs. Interpretation of the archaeological finds, based on an extensive archive research, enabled to give a date of the origins and use of the shelter to the period of the Protectorate of Bohemia...

Aktuality

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Průvodce pražskou archeologií

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