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Černá růže shopping centre (Pasáž Černá růže - nákupní centrum)
Na Příkopě 12 Praha 1 - Nové Město 110 00 Phone: 221 014 111 http://www.cernaruze.czAbout
Black Rose Palace| The complex of houses named Black Rose (Černá růže) got its name after an ancient house with a front facing today’s Na Příkopě Street, which had a long history and an emblem of a black rose. The house is mentioned in the city chronicles as early as in 1377. One of the most significant owners was the extremely rich Martin Rotlev, the owner of Holešovice, Libeň, Koloděje and a royal coin master in Kutná Hora. At the end of the 14th century, the house was owned by the Bohemian part of the Charles University. Back then, it was used as a teaching centre and an assembly location. In 1408, for example, an educated disputation was held here on the orthodoxy of the Wiklef books, attended by several hundreds of university masters, bachelors and students, including Jan Hus. The name At the Black Rose first appears in 1432, probably after the new owner named Janek from the Black Rose. When the object became municipal property in 1583, a coaching inn was established here with a municipal salt-house, and both were subsequently successfully rented. The business prospered until the French occupation of Prague in 1743 and the Prussian bombing in 1757. In both cases the house was rather badly damaged. In 1767, the city sold the house to builder Jan Josef Wirch, who rebuilt it and added the second floor. A radical reconstruction was then carried out by a machine factory owner František Frenzel, who purchased the house in 1846. A year later, his brother, architect Jan Jindřich Frenzel, designed and built the main three-storied building with a Romantic facade facing today’s Příkopy, and long yard wings. A cast-iron late-Empire relief was then installed on the balcony - the house emblem of the black rose. The first floor with a large hall was then used by the Municipal Association, which was very active here until the building of its own house. From the year 1880 on, the house was owned by the chairman of the Business and Trades Chamber and an iron wholesaler Bohumil Bondy. He had the interiors of the Classicist building with an extensive owner’s flat modified in new-Renaissance style in the years 1884 - 88 according to the projects of architect Josef Fanta. In the early 1930s, the rear tract of the house was demolished and a house Panská No. 4 was built on an L-shaped land plot according to a project of architect Oldřich Tyl. This house was connected with the historical house Na Příkopě via a passage in a Functionalist style. A complex of a department store with flats was thus created. The passage interior is interesting, with its unique glass-concrete vault and galleries. The object has been recorded in the National list of immovable property as an important document of the inter-war modern architecture. The refined passage got famous thanks to two popular stores - Moser Glass and Lippert Delicatessen. After the war, the assortment began to change. There were significant adaptations during the 60s. A staircase was placed in the middle of the passage, as well as a chandelier and a fountain in Brussels’ style. There were stores and workshop premises of different style, and the refined passage became the House of Services. During the 90s, the entire object, including the passage, was in emergency conditions. A tender was opened and the company SOLID was granted the object by the city for rent. The company restored the entire complex of buildings, including the passage, having thus rehabilitated this important monument. At present there are approximately 4,200 m2 of commercial and nearly 2,000 m2 of office spaces, and also the flats were restored, and two-storied garages were built in the underground part, accessible from Panská Street via a car elevator.
