History of the building

Originally a Renaissance-style half-timbered house dating from the second half of the 16th century. Among its prominent owners was, for example, Zachariáš Gärtler, a cooper and former mayor of Nový Jičín, who bought it in 1672. In 1689 the house became the property of the prominent local Czingler family. Later, it also belonged to the painter Johann Georg Schindler, one of the richest citizens of Nový Jičín in the first half of the 18th century. His son Anton Dominik, later an outstanding theologian, was born here in 1722. Since 1850, the fate of the house has been linked to the town's second pharmacy, founded by Franz Kraus. The Kraus family ran the pharmacy called U Černého orla until 1945. Under the same name, the house still serves pharmacy purposes today.