Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: radnice

This is the radnice in Moravska Trebova, which I got to see lit up after I got back to town. Initially, I found out that there were no more trains for the day, even though they were advertised. I then tried to get a bus, but there wasn't a direct one to Prague. Then I investigated hotels, looking for a cheap one.

This was the radnice, or city hall, in Trutnov. A number of the historic buildings in the city centre had odd modernistic sculptures on them. I took this with my cameraphone, as with all of my photos in Trutnov. If I had known I would be photographing the city, I would have brought a real camera, but this is the advantage of having a cameraphone. If you don't have a real camera, you can still get some crude snapshots anyway.

This was the radnice in Rockycany, with the typical clock tower. The clock appeared to be out of maintenance when I was there, though.

Here's the radnice, or town hall, of Nachod. This is the "Nove Radnice," or "New Town Hall." Annoyingly, like the church I can't get much information on it beyond the fact that it's the new one, and that it's a registered historic site.

Here are the Melnik radnice photos, as promised. Supposedly this site has been used for the radnice since 1449, although the site has the magistrat as far back as 1398, and the current building dates to 1793. This 1793 radnice was also rebuilt in 1889 and 1941, so even it isn't completely original. Other than this, I've had trouble finding much information about it.

Here's an alternate shot of the radnice.

Prague is divided into a number of districts which include within them many neighborhoods with their own names, but the districts generally go by numbers. The districts can be so large that they have their own city, or maybe it would be better to say town, halls, and this one is for Praha 4, the largest of all Prague districts which includes the boroughs of Nusle, Michle, Podoli, Zabehlice, Krc, Branik, Lhotka, Hodkovicky, and Kunratice. Some residents of other districts also legally have Praha 4 addresses for reasons that I'm not clear on. In any case, although I've been to this radnice (town hall) before, I was surprised especially by the fact that I had never photographed it before, as it's quite an ornate building. So much so, in fact, that I'm assuming it's a 19th, instead of 17th, Century building, although I could be wrong. I'm still trying to get information about it.

This is a highly-unusual shot (for me) that I took in Brandys nad Labem, a town so close to Prague that you can get there in a few minutes by bus from Cerny Most.

This is another heavily-edited shot, that I've marked as such. The original wasn't particularly well exposed, since getting an ideal balance was very difficult. I've brightened it, raised the contrast, and raised the saturation in Gimp. In any case, notice the crescent moon by the tower of the Stare Radnice? That's what I was trying to get.

This tower, at the corner of Reznicka and Vodickova, is supposedly part of the Novomestske Radnice, a building that I don't know much about. What it shows more than anything is how the Nove Mesto or "New City," isn't so new at all. In fact, it's medieval.

Swinging the Ikoflex (still on the tripod) over to my right, I got this shot right after the Tynsky Chram shot.

Here's the old Radnice, or town hall, of Kladno, constructed in 1898, is considered neo-Rennaissance in style. The architect was named Jan Vejrych, which brings up the question of whether he could have been related to Jan Werich, the actor and comedian.

This is the radnice, or city hall, of Hradec Kralove, adjacent the Cathedral.

On the way back from Lhota, the friend who I was riding with parked his car in Stara Boleslav so that we could have lunch, and this happened to be the radnice there.

The Holy Trinity Column was constructed in 1716-1754 to commemorate a plague in 1714-1716. It is considered the largest Baroque sculpture in the Czech Republic, and is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

While playing around with Elsemuko's Technicolor script in Gimp (still unsuccessfully, unfortunately, although not due to the script not working), I accidentally discovered that if I used Gimp's standard auto-equalize feature, I would get this, which rather than looking Technicolor, looks more like a bad Autochrome. Oh well....I still like it. It looks kind of like an old postcard, I think.

This building, while very old-looking, is actually the "Nove Radnice," or new town hall, and as it dates to 1903, it is a bit new by European standards.

Here's yet another view of the Radnice...