Seven Planets House, Baroque house in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
Seven Planets House is a two-storey row house at Tržiště 382/33, on a narrow plot running deep back from the street. The front section is residential, a middle bay served as passage and the rear held the kitchen and pantries. The plastered three-axis facade faces the street under a gabled roof with a central dormer; the ground floor and rear wing of the first floor are rubble stone, the rest half-timbered up into the attic.
The house was built after the great fire that struck Karlovy Vary in 1759, in the late or high Baroque period. The first mention of a house named after the seven then-known planets dates from 1756; the surviving half-timbered structure points to construction after the fire. Its owner at the time was the widow of Christian Wehner. It stands opposite the site of the former town hall on Tržiště Street and has been a protected cultural monument since 25 July 1991.
The house is named after the seven planets known when it was built; their symbols are mounted on the flat cornice separating the ground floor from the upper floors as a house sign. The first mentions of the name date from 1756, and the owner at the time was the widow of Christian Wehner.
The house sits near the town's thermal springs and classical colonnades in the spa district. Visitors can view this structure while exploring the surrounding historic spa area on foot.
The seven planet symbols sit on the flat cornice between the ground floor and the upper floors, serving as the house sign. They represent the seven planets known when the house was built. The first written mention of the name dates from 1756, before the reconstruction that followed the 1759 fire.
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