About Humpolec
The story of a Formanský pub that remembers more than five centuries
When on July 25, 1491, the abbess of the Porta Coeli monastery, together with her sister Ofka Johana of Pěvičín, knocked on the door of the Tišnov courtyard called "The Tower", they left an indelible mark on the history of Tišnov. With their own money, they bought a courtyard with two houses and an old tavern for the monastery. The tavern - although it has since undergone fires, reconstructions and changes of owners - still stands in its place today.
We call her Humpolka.
From the end of the 16th century, the property passed into the hands of Mr. Bernard of Gersdorf, who sold it to Mr. Jan Humpolecký of Rybenk in 1602. It was after him that the pub began to be called Humpolka. The purchase price? 780 gulden – including meadows, gardens, dugouts and everything that belonged to a proper pub.
However, in 1642 Humpolka fell victim to Swedish plundering – burned down along with the whole of Tišnov. Nevertheless, it rose again from the ashes. And it remained a foreman's pub – a place where wagons, horses and stories from the journeys met. After the Battle of Bílá Hora, it again fell to the monastery and remained in its ownership until 1782.
After that, Humpolka passed from hand to hand: from the townsman Václav Růžička, through Jan Mašíček, Josef Mikulášek, to Leopold Dvořáček, whose family ran the pub for almost half a century.
The building, as we know it today, bears the elegant Baroque signature of the monastic nobility from the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. And even though times have changed, one thing remains: Humpolka was and is the heart of Tišnov. The liveliest pub far and wide, especially before the arrival of the railway, when the main road from the mountains to Brno led through it.
And in the words of Mr. Bohuš Sedlák from 1942:
"It would only be a good thing that the current and future owners would preserve the baroque charm of Humpolka — for the delight of all noble souls, for their own praise, and for the blessing of the centuries-old roof...
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Address
Brněnská 184, Tišnov
Opening hours
Sun - Thu 11:00 - 22:00
Fri - Sat 11:00 - 00:00
