Prague 1 will discuss with the locals the future use of the summer house in Kampa
Michnovsk summer house. Photo: archive
Using the opinions of local residents, Prague 1 will look for a permanent solution for the continued operation of the Michnovský summer castle in Kampa, where the Scout Institute will operate from 2021. The loan will expire at the end of March, and the contract will be evaluated by the City Hall in the so-called participation process. Scouts should continue to operate there until the end of the process. Prague 1 mayor Terezie Radoměřská told ČTK today (TOP 09).
The town hall approved the loan of the summer house to the Scout Institute in mid-2021, the scouts operate a space there with cultural, educational and leisure activities and a cafe. Before the decision on the loan, the previous management of the town hall canceled the tender procedure for the commercial rental of monuments.
The loan to the scouts was conceived as temporary. “We are bound by the resolutions, which lead us to the fact that after the loan period, an evaluation of the entire project should be carried out. We intend to do it in a participatory way, i.e. quite simply ask local residents how they like it, what bothers them, what they would like to see expanded, and so on,” said Radoměřská.
She added that the city council has already assigned the initiation of the participation process to the relevant committee and it will probably take several months. The mayor also said that the town hall is not interested in starting the current operation during the evaluation period, the scouts will be able to stay there. The district council will decide in what form in the near future.
“In my opinion, the solution is to continue borrowing,” said the mayor. The possibility of renting is also considered.
In the past, the town hall also talked about the complete reconstruction of the summer house, which would, however, require its closure for a longer period of time. “Now we prefer not to close it, but to do it (reconstruction) step by step,” said Radoměřská. In recent years, the town hall has been gradually repairing the building.
Letohrádka, near Sový mýlny, is nicknamed the fisherman’s house, because it used to be the headquarters of the Czech Fishermen’s Association. He ran a fish restaurant on the ground floor of the building. Letohrádek is also known from the movie How to Drown Dr. Mráčka or The End of Watermen in Bohemia, which was filmed there.
Originally a Renaissance house, it was first rebuilt in the early Baroque period and in the middle of the 19th century in a classicist style. According to the website of the National Monuments Institute, the building has been listed since 1958.