Stop Seven – Below The Monastery ENG

The area below the monastery bears the imprint of the “spirit” of the church built in the Radical Baroque style, which you are to see once you climb up the hill. Some of its elements seem to have been transformed into the town’s architecture in the streets below the monastery, since this dominant of the town was bound to influence the architecture of the town’s houses. 

The area includes several remaining houses bearing the original gables, called “lomenice” in Czech, whose wooden roof decking used to bear the house’s “birth certificate”.

The roof decking boards were the “commemorative plaques” closing the bottom side of the house’s conical roof protraction in the top part of the gable. They were adorned with ornaments and sometimes told the date and the name of the builder or different sayings.

Inscription on a decking board from a house in Novopacko (Roškopov, house no. 4)