Bozkovského dům, house in Prachatice, Czech Republic

Bozkovského dům is a two-story corner house at Velké náměstí and Solní street in Prachatice, formed from two originally separate burgher houses and rebuilt in Renaissance style in 1573. Its square-facing facade has a projecting risalit with bay windows on corbels, painted in chiaroscuro illusionary ashlar and a mural of a Rožmberk horseman. The arcade contains a late Gothic portal and cross vaults with painted coats of arms.

The present house dates from the late 15th or early 16th century, probably linked to the town fire of 1501. Jiřík Bozkovský, a Rožmberk captain from Boskovice in Moravia, rebuilt it in Renaissance form in 1573 after acquiring it through his marriage to the widow Kateřina in 1559. After the 1832 fire the Renaissance attic with gable extensions was removed and the attic storey converted to living space; a further repair is recorded in 1868.

The painted vault of the arcade carries the coats of arms of Prachatice's wealthiest burgher families, added in 1611, when the town had passed from the Rožmberks to the Bohemian king. The corner house once held the town's meat stalls, thirteen butcher shops bought up in 1893 by Jakub and Marie Hrbek, who turned the ground floor into the "Caffe restaurant Habsburg". Since 1962 the building has housed the town's ceremonial hall, and since 2001 the Otto Herbert Hajek Cultural Centre.

Bozkovského dům stands at the corner of Velké náměstí and Solní street, with its arcaded ground floor facing the square. The building houses the Otto Herbert Hajek Cultural Centre, so access follows the centre's opening times rather than a separate monument entrance. The rear house at Horní street no. 45 and the arcaded courtyard belong to the same complex.

The iron lighting basket that once hung on the corner of Solní Street held burning pine torches whose smoky red light lit the square; the original is now kept in the town museum. The cellars of the front section reach far under the square.