Velhartice - Werich's cottage
Admirers of Šumava know and it is of great importance to them that the great Czech culture Jan Werich shared his love for Šumava with them. Older residents still remember Jan Werich's stays in Velharticka, and Jan Werich's relationship with Velhartic, his cottage, and fishing are still a lively subject of interest for local people and tourists.
Jan Werich was a Czech film and theater actor, playwright, screenwriter, writer and columnist, an important representative. interwar theater avant-garde and post-war Czech theater culture. He also went down in history as one of the main figures of the interwar Liberated Theatre. Jan Werich was also a passionate fisherman. A stream, preferably a trout stream, was a basic requirement when he and his wife Zdena were looking for a place to build a cottage. Werich's wife bought the land in a beautiful valley in 1938 for 27,335 crowns from Václav and Alžběta Hanzík, who had a mill and a sawmill next door.
The cottage is located between a branch of the river Ostružná and a wide mill channel, draining water from the mill and sawmill, to a spacious, flat meadow. The building was designed by the architect František Zelenka, who was employed at the Osvobozený divadl in the years 1929 - 1932 as the head of the set. For lovers of Šumava, the fact that the last thing Jan Werich saw in his life was his cottage near Velhartice in Šumava. Here in 1980, he lost consciousness and did not wake up in the hospital. So he carried to heaven the image of the place he had once chosen and loved above all else, and which he called the "Valley of Happiness". Jan Werich died on October 31, 1980 in Prague.
Source: www.velhartice.cz
Jan Werich was a Czech film and theater actor, playwright, screenwriter, writer and columnist, an important representative. interwar theater avant-garde and post-war Czech theater culture. He also went down in history as one of the main figures of the interwar Liberated Theatre. Jan Werich was also a passionate fisherman. A stream, preferably a trout stream, was a basic requirement when he and his wife Zdena were looking for a place to build a cottage. Werich's wife bought the land in a beautiful valley in 1938 for 27,335 crowns from Václav and Alžběta Hanzík, who had a mill and a sawmill next door.
The cottage is located between a branch of the river Ostružná and a wide mill channel, draining water from the mill and sawmill, to a spacious, flat meadow. The building was designed by the architect František Zelenka, who was employed at the Osvobozený divadl in the years 1929 - 1932 as the head of the set. For lovers of Šumava, the fact that the last thing Jan Werich saw in his life was his cottage near Velhartice in Šumava. Here in 1980, he lost consciousness and did not wake up in the hospital. So he carried to heaven the image of the place he had once chosen and loved above all else, and which he called the "Valley of Happiness". Jan Werich died on October 31, 1980 in Prague.
Source: www.velhartice.cz
