Split House, Cultural monument in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
Split House, originally Stadt Bremen, is a four-storey row building with a residential attic at Tržiště 388/43, built in 1896–1897 in a Northern Neo-Renaissance style with baroque elements. Its facade has four uneven axes, a slightly projecting left bay, a round-arched entrance with a keystone, and a balcony above it. A three-sided bay window spans the second and third floors, and the third-floor facade rises into volute gables. A stone terrace with steps and a balustrade stands before the ground floor.
The building was completed in 1897 as Karlovy Vary transformed into a major European spa destination. This era shaped how structures were designed to welcome wealthy visitors seeking health and leisure.
The house carries a changing name history: after the 1759 fire it was rebuilt as Haus Weinberg, by 1835 it was called Stadt Lübeck, and from 1896–1897 it became Stadt Bremen. Today the sign reads Split, and the building operates as Hotel Ester.
The house stands on the sloping Tržiště street; a stone terrace with steps and a stone balustrade runs along its whole ground-floor front, so the entrance is reached from the pavement by these steps. The arcaded arched doorway sits in the third window axis from the left.
The house stands on Tržiště street, not by a river. Its original name was Stadt Bremen, after the German city of Bremen; before that it was called Haus Weinberg and later Stadt Lübeck. The facade's third axis from the left carries a three-sided bay window on the second and third floors.
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