Průzkumy památek 2022, 29(2):100-114 | DOI: 10.56112/pp.2022.2.05

Log Houses in the Rokycany Region, Dobřív and Kařízek Examples

Stanislav Plešmíd, Karel Foud

Národní památkový ústav, územní odborné pracoviště v Plzni

The Rokycany and Zbiroh regions are regarded as localities of the Central Bohemian log house type. Wood was the prevailing building material in this area practically until the second half of the 19th century. The surviving historical folk houses mostly date from the first third of the 19th century, but structures built during the 18th century are no exception. A single storey log house with a gable roof or a half hip roof, overlapping above the doorstep and many times also over the façade gable, is a typical example of a local vernacular house. The houses have a common three-part layout with a storeroom. The front part is either made of one room or has two wings with a narrow little room, where the same recurs in the back part. A small courtyard balcony built on the longitudinal and sometimes also gable part of the house is an element that differentiates the folk houses in the Rokycany Region at the foot of the Brdy Mountains from the rest of vernacular structures in the Plzeň Region. The overlapping roof covers the balcony. A large number of these original structures remained in local villages including Dobřív. Homestead no. 5 with a house from the early 19th century is just one example. The homestead further includes a log barn from the 1790 s. The research of log houses in the region further revealed house no. 48 in Kařízek. Dendrochronology dates the erection of this traditional log house from the first decade of the 19th century and its partial reconstruction from the mid-19th century. A valuable collection of historical joinery elements - windows and doors - has survived in the two houses.

Keywords: vernacular architecture - log houses in the Rokycany Region - Podbrdsko Region - Dobřív no. 5 - Kařízek no. 48 - historic style joinery fillings of building openings

Published: December 15, 2022  Show citation