Stará vodárna / Old Waterworks - Chrudim (East Bohemia)
N 49° 56.980 E 015° 47.760
33U E 557106 N 5533338
Old Waterworks (Stará vodárna) in Chrudim, constructed in 1670 and rebuild in neo-Gothic style in 1852, was converted for residential use and its ground floor houses restaurant Sissi.
Waymark Code: WM12G1R
Location: Pardubický kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/20/2020
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Old Waterworks (Stará vodárna) in Chrudim, constructed in 1670 and rebuild in neo-Gothic style in 1852, was converted for residential use and its ground floor houses restaurant Sissi.
The waterworks building was built on the site of a medieval waterworks in 1670. It pushed the water from the mill race upwards using a water wheel into the water tower added to the Na Puši house (today Žižka Square 104). From there, the water flowed by gravity into two fountains in the center of Chrudim and later into the Capuchin convent. Originally the Baroque Waterworks was rebuilt neo-Gothically by František Schmoranz Sr. in 1852. After the construction of the water supply system from Kocí (1885), it only supplied water to the fountain in the square, until 1951. You can see a replica of the original water wheel when you look into the building through the window on the ground floor.
Waterworks was rebuilt for residential and commerical use in the end of the 20th century, currently houses restaurant.
The former waterworks is a three-storey solitary building set on a gentle slope above the former mill race, which flows below it. The main narrow biaxial façade, delimited by 2 corner and 1 central buttresses of unplastered stone blocks, faces south. The plain gable of the building is decorated with a stone slab with the coat of arms of the town of Chrudim.
Source: excerpted and translated from
National Heritage Institute portal.