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Berglův palác, Gothic Revival villa at Moravské náměstí, Czech Republic.

Berglův palác is a Gothic Revival villa in Brno featuring ornate facades, soaring interior spaces, and elaborate decorative details throughout its rooms. The building displays the characteristic architectural language of 19th-century Central Europe with its distinctive structural and ornamental features.

The neo-Renaissance house with a neo-Gothic facade was built in 1860–1863 for the leather merchant Johann Bergl (or Bergler) to a design by Viennese architect Heinrich Ferstel, on the line of Brno's demolished city walls. In 1888 Edmund Bochner, co-owner of a textile factory, had the leather shop converted into a café by architect August Prokop; Otto Biber moved his Café Biber there, the first café in Brno with electric lighting. The building later housed the Brno branch of the Prague Agricultural Museum, was damaged by shelling in 1945, and has been a cultural monument since 1964.

Locals call the building Muzejka, a nickname that stuck after the café inside was renamed Kavárna Muzeum in 1926, when the Prague Agricultural Museum bought the house. The café, moved here by Otto Biber in 1888, was the first in Brno with electric lighting. Its interiors were redesigned by Bohuslav Fuchs in 1934.

The palace stands at the corner of Moravské náměstí and Lidická street, entered through a courtyard into the surviving staircase hall. The French Alliance Brno and, since 2003, the Austrian Institute Brno occupy the building; a Ukrainian cultural centre opened there in 2022. The former café space housed the Gattamelata restaurant from 2022 until its closure in May 2023.

The decorative iron grille above the two-arm staircase carries the owner's initials and the year the building was finished. The corner lookout terrace once held a winter garden, which August Prokop removed during his 1888 conversion of the ground floor into a café.

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Heinrich von Ferstel, August Prokop
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historicism, Gothic Revival
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49.20020,16.60740
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