Jozef Neumann appartment building

Present of the house

 

 

At present time, the house is a seat of a library. On the groundfloor there is an adult department, on the 1st floor there is a children´s department and in the attic there is a study with a terrace and a beautiful view to the surroundings.

 

 

History of the house

 

 

In 1903 Josef Neumann had a one-storey New Baroque house bulit. The house was designed by a local builder Ernst Lazel and it was located nearby the bridge over the Opava river. The platform of the house was determined  by its location – the corner of the two streets.  

 

 

The entrance was through a small terrace. The right part of the house was three-winged, with a connecting corridor in its middle.  The left part, with a bevelled corner, highlighted with a cylindric tower bow window on the storey, was just one-winged.  Since  1945, the building was used as a district headquarters of the Communist Party. In 1954 the house, originally residential, was adapted for library purposes.  In 1989 a separate building with a reading-room was built up in the courtyard. Later in  2003, the building underwent a complete reconstruction, designed by an architect Vlastimil Zilich, including the completion of an outdoor entrance.

 

 

Contact Library Soukenická 29, Krnov +420 554 610 905 www.knihkrnov.cz

  

Opening hourse   Adult department Information office Children´s department Music department Monday 8:30 – 18:00 8:30 – 18:00 8:30 – 18:00 13 – 18:00 Tuesday 8:30 – 18:00 8:30 – 18:00 8:30 – 18:00 13 – 18:00 Wednesday closed closed closed closed Thursday 8:30 – 18:00 8:30 – 18:00 8:30 – 18:00 13 – 18:00 Friday 8:30 – 18:00 8:30 – 18:00 8:30 – 18:00 13 – 18:00 Saturday 8:30 – 12:00 8:30 – 12:00 8:30 – 12:00 closed