Wikipedista:Pucikjan/Pískoviště: Porovnání verzí

'''2.5. THE COUNCIL CHAMBER'''

The old council chamber flanking the session chamber on the other side is one of the most beautiful rooms of the entire Town Hall. Though renovated many times it has preserved its original late-Gothic character datin from about 1470. The wooden coffered ceiling, polychromed in the second half of the 16th century, rests on moulded beams strenghtened in 1638 by the addition of strong gilded chains. The walls are adorned by Gothic wooden panelling, a number of emblems, the armorial bearings of the Old Town . Both entrance portals are in late-Gothic style. The most precious feature of the interior, however, is a wooden sculpture of Christ Suffering from the beginning of the 15th century. It is placed on a bracket decorated with the bust of an angel and the inscription „Juste iudicate filii hominis“ (Judge justly, O Sons of Man), as an injuction to the councillors sitting there. The statue is in the „beautiful style, the climax of Czech Gothic at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. The other sculptures of the old council chamber are of a more recent date: the Madonna is from the 16th century, St. Wenceslas and St Ludmila from the 17th century and the statue of John the Baptist from the 18th century. The Baroque stove with gilded grille and the statue of Justice bearing the date 1736.

'''2.6. THE TOWN HALL CHAPEL'''

The former public hall and the Town Hall Chapel are reached through a metal-fitted door. The public hall, once destined for the sessions of the assemblies of the Town Council, was probably built in the second half of the 15th century just like the council chamber. Unfortunately it was completely destroyed during the fire in May 1945. The Town Hall chapel in the tower, consecrated in 1381, suffered a similar fate. Only the magnificent portal, one of the oldest preserved monuments, has survived. Interesting is the moulding of the wall, the semi-circular arch with rich mouldings is supported on slim columns terminating in Gothic pinnacles. Above the portal is an interesting emblem, often repeated on structures dating from the reign of Wenceslas IV. This consists of a kingfisher and the letter „E“, surrounded by what looks suspiously like a carefully pleated and knotted small serviette. Both the style and the Wenceslas´s emblem indicate that the portal was built by the royal stonemasons´ lodge.