TOWN OF PŘÍBOR

EDUCATIONAL ROUTE OF THE PŘÍBOR URBAN CONSERVATION AREA

Stop No. 1 Sigmund Freud Square
The present appearance of the square originated during reconstruction in the years 1966-1997 and 2000-2001. The entire square and the arcade were originally paved with river stones, forming a so-called pebble pavement. A statue of the Virgin Mary and statues of St. Roch and St. Florian stand in the middle of the square; they were allegedly erected to avert the plague. Next to them ther is a fountain from 1899, which replaced an original fountain with stone curging.


Stop No. 2 Sigmund Freud Memorial
Sigmund Freud
* 6 May 1856
x 23 September 1939
The memorial dates back to 1969 and is the work of sculptors´ F. Navrátil and Z. Makovský from Brno.

Stop No. 3 Parental home of Sigmund Freud
The parental home of Sigmund Freud is situated in Zámečnická Street, which was demolished in 1975 and the parental home was the only one to be preserved. Sigmund Freud was born in this house on 6 May 1856 and spent three years of his life there. The house was purchased by the town of Příbor in 2005 from a private owner; it was subsequently reconstructed to give it a late 19th century appearance and ceremonially opened on 27 May 2006.

Stop No. 4 Church of Virgin Mary`s Birth
The church dates back to the 1st halt of the 13th century. An originally wooden church was rebuilt in the Gothic style, with later extensions in the years 2000-2005. On the high altar rhere is the Příbor Madonna, from around the year 1420. Around the church there is a Way of the Cross from 1887, in front of the church on high columns there are statues of St. John of Nepomuk, St. Cyril and St. Methodius, and Sr. John Sarkander.

Stop No. 5 Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross was built in 1645 in the place of an original wooden church from 1516. In the course of the 19th and 20th centuries it was gradually reconstructed into the present appearance.

Stop No. 6 Church of St. František
The small church of St. František Serafínský was built in 1622. The area around the church was selected as a burial place and consecrated in 1623. The church underwent a general repair as part of the programme of regeneration of the urban conservation area, and subsequently it was ceremonially opened on 13 November 1994. Since the mid 19th century, no burials have taken place around the church and the area is designated as an old cemetery.

Stop No. 7 St. Valentine`s Church
St. Valentine`s Church, a beautiful baroque construction, was built as a wooden church in 1596. After the arrival of the Piarists to Příbor, the town dedicated the church to them. In the years 1760-1766 it was rebuilt into today`s appearance according to the plans of the rector of a Piarist college - Local native Heliodor Knauer. In the years 1995-1996 there was a general renovation of this notable construction. The reopening ceremony of the temple, which simultaneously was four hundredth anniversary of the construction of the church, took place on 20 October 1996.

Stop No. 8 Piarist monastery
The Piarist grammar school was founded on 5 February 1694; the building was put up in the years 1694-1700. The Piarists operated in Příbor until 1870. In the years 1875-1938 it housed a Bohemian normal school, presently the building houses an elementary school of arts, museum and town library. A former refectory is well worth viewing.