City Valcha on the former Valchova Street

Sandstone slab with dimensions 101,5 x 82 x 21 cm originally probably mounted on the town valcha, now deposited in the Museum of Novojičín, inv.no. Kam 37, accession no. 471/2001

In the centre of the upper part of the plate a relief municipal emblem - in the plate a clothed arm holding the right half of a coiled arrow stands out from the left edge.

Inscribed in capital along the emblem: SOLIDEO GLORIA

Below the emblem:

ANNO 1599 BEIM ELTISTEN BVRGER / MEISTER HERRN PETER SCHEITENHA / WER VON FVLNEK VND SEINEN RATIS GE / NOSSEN HERRN ZACHARIA GERTLER ELIA / RZEPEA VON GREIFFENSDORF VND / VALTEN LEITSHER ZVE FVRDERVNG / EINER EHRBAREN CZECH DER / TVCHMACHER IST DISE WALCKMVHL / VON STEINEN GEBAVT WORDEN: / CECHMEISTER GEWEST DAMAL / HANS STICH DER ELTER IAKOB ROLE / R SIMON HORAK VND WENCZEL / KLOCMAN VON REICHENAW

The plaque commemorates the erection of a stone souk, which replaced the original wooden building. Its location in the north-eastern part of the town was determined by the course of the mill stream.

Literature. III. Auslage. Neutitschein, Wien und Leipzig 1903, p. 15; Finfer, Wolfram: Neutitschein. Die Hauptstadt des Kuhländchens einst und heute. Ludwigsburg 1994, p. 3.3.41.B.3; Čarek, Jiří: Town signs in the Czech lands. Prague 1985, p. 274.