Salt Store

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The building is currently under renovation.

It is a prominent building in Piarist Square: a Gothic style structure with small windows and a tall and steep crenellated gable. The Salt Store was built in 1531 and has served many purposes since then. The first was as an armory and gunpowder storage. Later it was converted to a granary and then to a salt store. It is the last purpose, a place for storing salt, that has given the building its present-day name. The building interior has original preserved medieval timberwork.

The Salt Store gable features three stone faces, which legend attributes to a trio of robbers who attempted to rob the adjacent Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1724 and were subsequently beheaded. Another relief can be seen on the side facing the Malše River.