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Běliště

Běliště Běliště is the largest timbered building in Železný Brod. The single floor timbered house with a rectangular plan and a saddle roof has a lavishly decorated gable, which is divided in half by a balustrade colloquially called a catwalk. A two-storey outhouse adjoins rectangularly the building. It has masonry wall on the ground floor, timbers on the first floor, and a courtyard gallery with slender profiled posts. On one of the wooden boards, there is an interesting inscription: “In the year of our Lord 1807 on the day of 6th June. This house is raised with the help of God and at the expense of Mr Jan Brožek, our neighbour and a master of the honest tanner's trade. The master carpenter Jan Šída from Jesenný. His journeymen from there as well.” One of the most interesting examples of folk architecture in the Železný Brod region was extensively reconstructed in 1993 1997. Today it serves as an ethnographic exposition of the Municipal Museum. The interior consists of nine rooms, each focusing on a special part of the history of Železný Brod and the surrounding area.
Běliště detail The exhibits include an old classroom, guild objects, a shoemaker's stool with a shoetree and a necessary stirrup, a bakery, country folk and townsfolk Sunday clothes, and other exhibits. In the attic, there are wooden Nativity Scenes, and models of actual townhouses that used to stand in the town square. Even a functional hurdy-gurdy with nine tunes remains well-preserved and still plays at Běliště. Along the access path, there are three sandstone statues from the second half of the 18th century: St. Florian, St. John of Nepomuk, and St. John the Baptist.

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