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Name
Girls’ LyceumKřížová Primary School -
Address
Křížová 1367/33, Jihlava -
Date
P 1909 (?), R 1909–1910 -
Building constructor
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Trail
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Code
28F -
GPS
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Type
School -
Monument preservation
Territorial protection of the Jihlava urban conservation reserve
The main twelve-bay frontage of the three-storey building is composed symmetrically. The ground floor, which is separated from the first floor by a distinctive cornice, is decorated with a bossage, while considerably simplified giant order pilasters stretch along both floors. The slight central avant-corps is topped with a gable with an oval window, the sides of which originally had an ornamental balustrade. The windows on the first floor have distinctive pediments, following the model of Baroque palaces, which are complemented by stucco ornaments. The stucco is applied across the entire façade in the form of festoons, decorative meanders, and scrollwork embellishing the portal. All these elements clearly show the architect's inspiration drawn from the city palaces of the early 18th century. The building can thus be described as Neo-Baroque.
The central space of the school is the stairwell, around which the individual classrooms were arranged, with windows facing either the street or the courtyard. On the ground floor, in addition to classrooms, there was also a shop, where the merchant Karl Wohlrab ran a stationery and school supplies shop in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1931, the German Girls' Lyceum was replaced with the Czech School of Business (Česká obchodní škola). With ten classrooms, it was not very large, so in March 1937, two proposals were drawn up for an extension into the courtyard to add new classrooms and a gymnasium, which the school lacked. Further new premises were to be provided by an extension on the site of the fire station storehouse to the south of the school. These unsigned plans were likely prepared by the Jihlava Municipal Authority, which bought the building from the Savings Bank in 1938. However, the extension was never built. Between 1940 and 1945, no lessons were given there and the former Girls' Lyceum served as a German Pupil Home, providing free accommodation to dependant young people and single mothers with their children.
The idea of an extension returned in the first half of the 1950s, when the building already housed a secondary school. The previously considered plot of the former fire station storehouse was selected, located between the existing Neo-Baroque school and the National School building at no. 1366. On the ground floor of the new complex, the longed-for gymnasium was built, along with additional classrooms on the two floors above. The cloakrooms and washrooms belonging to the gymnasium were situated in the National School building and the two schools were connected on the first floor level. The design of the extension, drawn up by architects from the Jihlava office of Stavoprojekt, was approved by the Jihlava Local Committee (MNV) in 1954. The new complex follows the existing building in its scale, with the cornices and windows being at the same level too. Its simple façade also indicates that it is a later addition. It is thus an example of conservation architecture that tries to respect the older building as much as possible.
In the early 1960s, the former Girls' Lyceum was renovated. At that time, it already housed the Nine-Year Primary School, which is still located in all the three connected buildings today.
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Literature and other sources
Literatura:
Ladislav Vilímek, I domy umírají vstoje II, Jihlava 2015, s. 101.
Ladislav Vilímek, I domy umírají vstoje II, Jihlava 2015, s. 98–99.
Ostatní zdroje:
Státní okresní archiv Jihlava, Stavební archiv, čp. 1367.
Jana Laubová, Architektura Jihlavy 1900–2009, nepublikovaná diplomní práce Katedry dějin umění Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Palackého, Olomouc 2009, s. 15.
