In Budějovice
Zátkův dům — bust on Krajinská
On foot 17 min
A bust on a house in Krajinská recalls a man who spent eight years trying to reconcile the Czech and German halves of the town. An agreement was passed in May 1914. Three months later the First World War began.
It was August Zátka, lawyer and leader of the Czech half of Budějovice, who also stood at the birth of Budvar, and he was born in this very house in Krajinská street. The bust was made by Bohumil Kafka, author of the huge equestrian statue of Jan Žižka on Prague's Vítkov. The house stands right on the way from the square to Masné krámy and today holds a hotel with a restaurant; the stop takes two minutes.
Practical details
- On foot 17 min
On site
- The bust is on the façade — read the inscription below. It gives birth date and the house where it happened.
- Notice the sculptor. Bohumil Kafka made the equestrian Jan Žižka on Vítkov, one of the largest bronze statues in the world. Here you get a bust on an ordinary house in Krajinská.
- Further along the same street are Masné krámy (story) — easy to combine in one walk.