History of the House 'U Černé hvězdy' (The Black Star)
Beerhouse 'U Švejků' - Újezd 22, Prague 1
| 1618 - | John Legenfelder, a wealthy citizen and carpenter, bought this piece of land for 180 three scores Meissen groschen and built a house here |
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| 1619 - | The house was sold for 550 three scores to Matthias Sojka and his wife Ludmila |
| 1624 - | Matthias Sojka got married for the second time and gave the house to Katherine Aukrelova |
| 1654 - | After the death of her husband, Katherine Aukrelova got married for the second time and presented the house to her husband Vaclav Fik |
| 1668 - | The sisters Elisabeth and Rose Safar bought the house from the husband and wife Fik for 550 guldens |
| 1671 - | The house was sold to John Weickelman and his wife Barbara for 600 guldens |
| 1676 - | In the sale contract, there was for the first time mentioned the name 'The Black Star' and in the same year the house was sold to Thomas Khiel for 500 guldens |
| 1682 - | He sold it to Marc Leo Rohac for 550 guldens who rebuilt it |
| 1691 - | The house was sold to Matthias Holub, a baker, for 1600 guldens |
| 1725 - | Maximilian Holub, his son, inherited the house |
| 1741 - | He sold it to baker David Pellet for 2100 guldens |
| 1766 - | The house was bought by Jan Proks, another baker, for 2100 guldens |
| 1776 - | He bequeathed it to his wife Eva and his children |
| 1783 - | Upon the request of the creditors, the house was sold by public sale to Katherine Baumanova for 1600 guldens |
| 1793 - | She gave it to her son James Bauman |
| 1835 - | James Bauman sold the house to his wife Anna for 2000 guldens |
| 1913 - | Karel Stafl, a Prague coffeehouse proprietor, and his wife bought this house and opened an inn on the ground floor. In the early years after the 1 st World War, the inn was visited by President Masaryk as well as the writer Jaroslav Hasek who served in the army in the nearby barracks in Ujezd |
| 1939 - | The inn was officially closed |
| 1946 - | The inn was reopened |
| 1948 - | The inn was closed permanently. The rooms remained empty up to the time when the house was taken over by the state authorities |
| 1991 - | The house has been returned to the heirs of the Family Stafl, i.e. to the sisters Jirina Koncelikova and Milada Stichova |
| 1993 - | The ground floor of the house was leased, rebuilt and the beerhouse 'U Švejků' was opened in these rooms on the lst of June 1993 |
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