The Plzeň Region has four new cultural monuments, including the rabbi's house

Plzeň - The Rabbi's House in Tachov as a significant evidence of Jewish settlement in the Tachov region is this year one of four new cultural monuments of the Plzeň Region. In the region, a water mill in the village of Zahrádka in southern Plzeň, a road bridge with a stone footbridge over the water intake and stone boundary markers in Manětín in northern Plzeň, and an apartment building in Plzeň on Hrušková and Klatovská streets were also declared. CTK was informed about this by Jana Tichá, spokesperson for the National Heritage Institute (NPÚ).
    "The Rabbi's House in Tachov was part of the Jewish ghetto, which likely extended on the southern side of the Tachov city core since the end of the 15th century. The building, which housed the rabbi's office, meeting room, classroom, and staff apartments of the religious community, was built between 1911 and 1912, along with the neighboring, now non-existent, synagogue," she stated.
    The architect and educator Alfred Grotte, a distinguished expert in Central European synagogue architecture, was the author of the site design. Most of the original constructions and a number of artistic and craftsmanship elements have been preserved in the interior. The civic association Synagoga Tachov is preparing a complete reconstruction.
    The list of monuments in the Plzeň Region has also been joined by a steel bridge over the Manětínský stream with a stone footbridge over the water intake and 41 stone boundary markers. "The steel bridge is one of the oldest constructions of its kind in the Plzeň Region," Tichá noted. Construction began on June 8, 1885, and the entire structure was completed within a few months. The bridge has been preserved in very good condition, including the original manufacturing labels at both ends of the bridge. Both foreshores with stone boundary markers and a stone footbridge over the mill's water intake made of regularly worked sandstone blocks and keystones have also remained in their original form.
    The other two monuments in the region are a water mill including the mill works and the so-called paddle wheel in the village of Zahrádka and an apartment building in Plzeň in the South Suburbs.
    A total of 40,297 immovable cultural monuments, 47,262 movable cultural monuments, and 296 national cultural monuments were listed in the Central Register of Cultural Monuments in the Czech Republic as of June 30, 2014.