Historic Cities · Czechia
Kutná Hora through the ages
Kutná Hora is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 22,000 inhabitants. The history of Kutná Hora is linked to silver mining, which made it a rich and rapidly developing town.
Kutná Hora in 1495
Royal Silver Town
Kutná Hora in 1495 stands at the height of its medieval silver economy: mines, mint and masons push the town's wealth into stone and coin. The walk shows scaffolded building sites and rooflines, busy market streets with ore‑laden carts, the mint courts and the abbey fields beyond the town.
A compact medieval town of dark limestone and honeyed sandstone roofs rises from a wooded ridge above the Vrchlice stream. Pointed Gothic towers and scaffolded vaults puncture the skyline; timber roofs, plastered gables and carved stone facades line narrow winding streets. Dust and smoke from smelters hang low over the market, while white‑hooded miners and wagon teams animate the lanes and quarry slopes.
The route: 15 streets, squares and views
View from Kaňk Hill → Vlašský dvůr Gate → Upper Market (Horní náměstí) → Dodecagon Fountain (Rejsek's Fountain) → Stone House (Kamenný dům) → Church of Saint James → Vlašský dvůr Mint Towers → St Barbara's Scaffolded Choir → Barbora Spur Approach → Hrádek Above Vrchlice → …
Step inside, 9 interiors
Royal Audience Hall · Upper Market Butchers' Bay · Merchant's Great Hall · Italian Court Minting Chamber · St Barbara Rising Vaults · Kaňk Smelter Casting Shed · Horse‑Whim Drive House · Osel Mine Gallery · Sedlec Abbey Choir
Planned from the Wikipedia record: Kutná Hora.
From the archive
Kutná Hora on paper: the old town as it was mapped.
A period plan or bird's-eye view of the old town, drawn between 1500 and 1850 — the streets this page's reconstructions walk. Public domain, with its source named.
Bird's-eye view of Kutná Hora, by Johann Willenberger (1602)
Panoramic view showing the river in front, dense medieval roofscape and the large churches of St Barbara and St James rising among multiple spires.
1602 · Johann Willenberger · Wikimedia Commons
Public domain (plate dated 1602)
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