History of Some Buildings

The Community Granary

At the instigation of the progressive village judge Jan Ladman, around 1825 eighteen cottagers and smallholders joined together and at a cost of 200 guilders built, on communal land parcel no. 2063, a granary for the communal storage of threshed grain. The building was constructed of stone, with grain stored on wooden floors on the ground floor and upper floor. Over time, however, these farmers built their own storage facilities and the communal granary fell into disuse. The derelict building was purchased by Alois Švehla of Ounice, who in 1900 converted it into a dwelling house, no. 57.

The Manorial Inn

There has been an inn in Slatina since time immemorial. As early as 1578 Adam Boubínský, lord of Třebomyslice, donated the privileged inn in Slatina to the town hospital in Horažďovice. In 1654 it belonged to Kadov and its innkeeper was Václav Krčmář. He had no fields but kept one cow. At some unknown point it passed to the Bezděkov estate, with which in 1682 it was sold to Lnáře. In 1723 Countess Maria Josefína Küniglová sold the Slatina inn to Václav Ferdinand Kunaš of Machovice for 3,000 guilders, who added it to his Slatina estate.

Of the innkeepers from that time we know of Jan (1666), Kryštof Vorlíček (1687–1693) and Martin Martinides (1693–1696). From 1696 it was in the possession of several generations of the Šimůnek family: Václav Šimůnek (1696–1723), Andres Braun (approximately 1723–1750, when the inn fell into disrepair), Václav Šimůnek (1772–1793), Antonín Šimůnek (1793–1837), Matěj Šimůnek (1837–1847) and again from 1884–1913. From the period when the Šimůnek family held the inn, the following record survives:

Record of Václav Šimůnek's tenure of the Slatina inn: "On 1 January 1701 Václav Šimůnek took over the manorial inn with all its appurtenances, namely a chamber, stable, cowshed, cellar or storeroom, fields of under 9 strychy in 6 parcels, meadows yielding under 4 cartloads of hay. The inn was well built; he paid 9 guilders annually from it. Over the years the inn fell into disrepair or burned down. The son of the said Šimůnek, also named Václav, took over the inn, had it re-roofed, paid the carpenters for their work, and bought it from Andres Braun for 170 guilders with all its rights, the land — unsown — and meadows, together with a living room, next to it a small room, office, cellar, chamber, horse stable and cow stable, and in 1758 at St. George's Day paid for it in full.

The obligations attached to the inn are:

1. To pay the annual rent of 15 guilders to the lord in two instalments, at St. George's Day and St. Gall's Day,
2. Not to adulterate the manorial beer as received from the brew house, to sell it fairly and honestly, to serve guests faithfully for their money, to give correct measure and not short measure, to cheat in nothing. Should anything suspicious of this kind come to light, the innkeeper shall be obliged to pay 3 kopy (groats) penalty to the Gracious Lord,
3. Also to pay the barrel tax and the so-called šrůtka of 35 kreuzer for each barrel, and also 3 kreuzer for the registration of each barrel for beer served, in cash,
4. Should however the innkeeper fall into debt and the inn be put up for sale, the lord has the right at his pleasure to dispose of all and to install a new innkeeper,
5. At each Harvest Festival the innkeeper shall receive one pine tree from the lord, so that the merry people and servants do not suffer in the inn from any shortage of light,

Clause: Since in certain past years beer has not been brewed in the Slatina estate brewery, to preserve this arrangement for future times, the Gracious Lord grants the innkeeper exemption from labour duty for travelling to fetch beer."

The last owner, Matěj Šimůnek, born 24 February 1843, encumbered the inn with such debts that at the request of the Steam Brewing Company of the burgher brewing rights in Strakonice, an auction of all buildings, fields, agricultural supplies and equipment was held at the District Court in Horažďovice on 29 May 1913, including in the bar room '3 older tables, 10 older chairs, 4 older benches, 46 glasses and 15 porcelain trays'. The valuation of the inn including the land was 16,120 crowns; the opening price was 12,250 crowns. The inn was purchased by the Průcha family, who operated it until recent years under the name 'Hospoda U Průchů' (Průcha's Inn).

Slatina had two further inns, of which few records have been preserved. At the time when the village began to seek its own school, the Benedykt family ran an inn at homestead no. 6. This inn was the birthplace of Slatina's education, as the first school classroom was opened there (more about the Slatina school can be found in a separate section). A later owner was the family of Václav Kroupa, who was born in 1862 in Újezd near Chanovice. The inn also included a fairly large farm.

The third Slatina inn was at no. 46, known by its last name 'Hospoda U Říhů' (Říha's Inn). Originally it had been a Jewish inn; in 1838 it was held by Juda Hasterlik. Around 1900 it was owned by the village mayor Pavel Švec, who together with the teacher Josef Drnek was the initiator of the founding of the fire brigade in Slatina. The inaugural meeting was held at this inn on 5 February 1905, and Švec's inn then became the brigade's so-called 'club room' for a long time. For twenty years the firemen held their balls, soirées and theatrical performances there.