Schebek Palace, Renaissance Revival palace in New Town, Prague, Czech Republic
Schebek Palace is a Renaissance Revival building from the late 1800s with four wings surrounding a central rectangular courtyard. A marble staircase connects the different levels and leads to the main reception rooms.
The site held a manor house of Kryštof of Valdštejn by 1654; the Bred family bought it in 1691 and built a Baroque palace, damaged in the Prussian siege of Prague in 1757. From 1760 to 1780 it housed a hospital of the Merciful Brothers, then Maria Theresa donated it to the orphanage of St John the Baptist. The present Neo-Renaissance palace was built in 1870–1872 for road builder Baron Jan Schebek to designs by Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann.
The interior displays ceiling paintings by Viktor Barvitius and sculptures by Josef Wagner, showing Czech artistic skill from the 1800s. You can see these artworks in the main reception rooms as you move through the palace.
The building currently houses the Center for Economics Research and Graduate Education through the Czech Academy of Sciences. Access may be limited since it functions as an active research and academic building.
The palace's name comes from Baron Jan Schebek, a road-building entrepreneur who commissioned it in 1870; he sold it 18 years later to the Austro-Hungarian Bank. Its nickname, "The House of the Angel", is not explained in the sources.
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