We have kept this form thanks to the plans, which were preserved by the builder Johann Štěrbík in 1884. He documented the changes to the house, including the resulting classical and romantic elements.


The first classical alterations to the house took place before 1800, and transformed the house into the form we know and see to this day. For the first half of the 19th century the house was occupied by the Stockinger family, after whom the house belonged to Josef and Anna Babler until the 1940s. At this time, the house was first adapted to its current classical romantic form.

But the history of the house goes back much further.If its walls could talk, they would whisper stories about centuries of human destiny, life changes, quiet evenings by the fireplace and the bustling city.

Before the regular rhythm of wheeled suitcases inscribed the street, the house witnessed the lives of townspeople, craftsmen and scribes. You can take the cellar area, which still hides an old well, as a living memory.


The first references date back to the 16th century, when a certain Jira Hrachovec, later perhaps a miller from the nearby Peckovský mill, stayed here. It was not until 1572 that a man named Jerome Steiner arrived. The house remained in his family for over sixty years, until 1634. There is also a reference to the scribe Franz Josef Reichhardt, who in the evening gloom bends his head over a parchment while the town is slowly falling asleep.


In 1770, Josef Resk, a saddler, moved into the house and practiced his trade. In the first half of the 19th century, it was home to hosiers and the Babler family, who stayed until the 1940s.

Source: Český Krumlov