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Headquarters Of The Czech Republic - Strak Academy

The seat of the government of the Czech Republic is a neo-baroque building located on the left bank of the Vltava below the Letna Plain. The building, still known as the Straka Academy, was built in 1896 according to the design of architect Vaclav Rostlapil as a student dormitory for members of Czech aristocratic families. It was intended for government purposes for the first time during the occupation, then definitively in 1945.

However, the history of this construction, as well as the fate of the Straka Foundation, for whose purposes the construction was carried out, is much longer. We have to return to its roots until 1710, when the imperial secret council Count Jan Petr Straka, lord of Nedabylice and Libcan, established the establishment of an academy for "training of the young people, the state of the Czech nation". Strezetice and Libcany, Horni Teplice and Janovice and gardens in Nové Mesto.

Count Straka died on September 28, 1720, but the reality assumed in the will did not occur until 1776, five years after the death of Adam Vaclav Jiri. In the spirit of Straka's wishes, a commission composed of a board of governors, a member of the foundation commission and provincial councils was commissioned to carry out the legacy, whose task was to draw up guidelines and ensure the approval of the foundation letter. Witnesses of the complexity of dealing with the rural authorities, which covered all administrative competencies, more than a hundred years before the academy was founded.

However, the period preceding the construction of the building did not mean complete ignorance of the will. The support of Czech aristocratic sons has been realized since 1780 through scholarships paid from the foundation fund to 30 to 70 students. However, to whom and in what amount the scholarship is to be paid has often been the subject of dispute. The growing state interference in the administration of Straka's foundation fund is pointed out by well-known estate desiders from 1790. a scholarship.

As far as the construction of the building is concerned, the state requirement has been complied with, but subject to regular account checks. However, during the years 1801 - 1807, the number of scholarship holders was reduced from 69 to only 12 at a direct state intervention. and who has oversight of this report remain unresolved. Personal rights were defended by such personalities as Frantisek Palacky, Karel Helminger or Antonin Gindely, who is also the author of the new foundation letter proposal. At a meeting of the Landtag, the question of a change in the foundation letter came up again in 1876, in connection with the control of the account.

The construction in the former Jesuit garden took place in the years 1891 - 1896 and its total cost exceeded 1 million crowns. The building alone covers an area of 4,000 m2 and the garden, which was commissioned by Frantisek Thomayer, occupies another 17,000 m2. The sculptors Josef Mauder and Celda Kloucek took part in the decoration of the building, the painter Emanuel Dite was the author of the altarpiece of St. Vaclava.

According to the organizing council, the management of the academy was entrusted to a board of directors whose members were: the president appointed by the emperor, a government representative appointed by the deputy, a representative of the Prague archbishopric, an "outstanding person" selected by the highest marshal, clerk The academy was appointed by a director appointed by the emperor on a proposal from the board of trustees, who represented the academy in public, drew up budgets and remitted money, proposed the admission of new inmates, and exercised disciplinary power.