Dlouhá Street and Dlouhá Gate
The longest (340m) and the most important part of the city infrastructure was created when the city was spread out in the second half of the 14th century. It served as the main marketplace. The street gave a name to the Dlouhá Gate, originally a tower building which dates from 1405 and which was adapted in the 16th century as the so-called barbakán. The gate stood at the end of the street and completed the city fortification system after it was extended during the reign of King Charles IV in the third quarter of the 14th century. In the years 1723-26, a Baroque hospital, the so-called Troj?e (Triplet) was built in front of the gate from the initiative of Christian Pfalz of Ostritz. The Dlouhá Gate was demolished in 1863.
foto: Vlastimil Šafránek, ing.Miroslav Kukla, Karel Pech
