Cultural monument no. 13050 / 8-3330

Sandstone plaque measuring 123 x 88 cm, originally located on the so-called Parish Bastion, secondarily walled in the entrance hall of the Town Hall on Masaryk Square.

In the cartouche in an oval polychromed municipal emblem - a hand in a black sleeve holding the right half of a silver wound arrow stands out from the golden clouds at the left edge.

The inscribed capital inscription with numerous ligatures begins in two lines in a narrow scroll cartouche above the coat of arms:

ANNO DOMINI . 1613 / TVRRIS . FORTISIMA . NOMEN . DOMINI .

It continues in a rectangular roller cartouche below the coat of arms:

QVAE . NOVA . IAM . CERNIS . SVNT . PROPVG / MACVLA . STRVCTA / CONSVLE . TVMIANE PRINCIPE . MELCZELIO / HEINRICHIVS . THOBIAS . AB . EODEM / PROXIMVS . ALTER / PAVLVS SCHINDLERVS . CONSVI . HONORE . FVIT / IONAS . BOHAEMVS . IVNIOR . FVIT / ORDINAE . CONSVL . / IPSE . VRBEM . ET . CIVES CHRISTE . TVERE . DEVS

The plaque was carved to commemorate the building of the so-called Parish Bastion of the city fortifications.

Führer durch NEUTITSCHEIN. III. Auslage. Neutitschein, Wien und Leipzig 1903, p. 7; Nový Jičín. Nový Jičín 1996, p. 7; Gavendová, Marcela - Koubová, Marta - Levá, Pavla: Cultural monuments of the Nový Jičín district, Ostrava 1996, p. 106; Zezulčík, Jaroslav: Nový Jičín - Town Hall. Nový Jičín 2003, p. 2.