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Václav Rejchl st.

 
Date of birth: 6. 6. 1852 Librantice
Deceased: 24. 11. 1928 Hradec Králové
List of objects builder's
  • Jan Sixta’s Villa, Střelecká 437
  • Morušovka Villa, Plácelova 374
  • Karel Viewegh’s Villa, Nezvalova 377
  • Karel Janda’s Villa, Střelecká 461/18
  • Mr. and Ms. Nepasický’s Villa, Zámeček 440
  • Karel Wipler’s Villa, Orlické nábřeží 376
  • Václav Rejchl’s Villa / Klumpar’s Villa, Nezvalova 423
  • The Czechoslovak Hussite Church, Kavčí plácek 121
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Biography

Václav Rejchl is an example of a mason who became a successful builder and architect – an autodidact – thanks to his own diligence, hard work and talent. He was apprenticed by master bricklayer Antonín Černý in Černilov and then he worked in a number of cities – Prague–Karlín, Roudnice nad Labem and Rychnov – while attending the crafts school in Třebechovice. Since 1884, he worked as a master mason for architect František Červenka in Hradec Králové, for example on the tenement houses no. 82 and 83 (V Kopečku Street). At that time, he also received a master bricklayer license, but he kept working for František Červenka. Later, he worked with architect Viktor Weinhengst on the construction of the Hradec Králové theatre and then again for architect Červenka on the construction of Prince Lobkowitz’s sugar refinery in Rožďalovice. In 1894, he designed and built two exhibition pavilions for the Economic, Industrial and Ethnographic Exhibition. Subsequently, Rejchl founded a building company together with Tomáš Suhrada which built seven to eight major buildings by 1900. In 1897 (according to his son’s recollections [1]), Suhrada had an unspecified disagreement with Mayor Ulrich and left for to Prague while Václav Rejchl stayed in Hradec Králové and built several tenement houses (e.g. at 151 and 152 Velké náměstí Square). Problems arose during the construction of the tenement houses at 287 and 290 Mostecká Street and in today’s ČSA Avenue – the plots of land had unstable subsoil and Rejchl lost his money on the project. During the 1910s, Václav Rejchl became one of the most sought after builders and architects of tenement houses and villas in Hradec Králové. Around 1910, he built a number of family houses (in the Morušovka colony on Orlické Embankment, in Střelecká Street and in Nový Hradec Králové) and tenement houses (e.g. in Švendova Street). At that time, Václav Rejchl was also a member of many important public commissions and associations, for example, the Committee for the Construction of the Hučák Power Plant, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the city museum. Before World War I, his son Václav worked for him as a student. Between 1913 and 1915, they built the so-called Jan Hus House for the Lutheran Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession, which was to include a prayer room, a boys’ school and facilities. During the war, Václav Rejchl worked primarily on utilitarian projects. Between 1915 and 1916, he and his son designed small train station buildings in Slezské Předměstí (Silesian Suburbs; the station building and a secondary warehouse), Kukleny (the station building), and Lhota pod Libčany (a warehouse building). Other buildings include the school buildings in Librantice of 1910, built in a very simple eclectic style. In the so-called Jan Hus house and in the school in Librantice, Rejchl worked with an original synthesis of modern classicism. In 1919, he joined the East Bohemian Association of Builders together with his son; however, they soon left due to alleged corruption issues and Václav Rejchl retired. 

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Notes

[1] Vzpomínky V. Rejchla, family archive of Helena Judlová, unpaginated.

Other Works

1895–1896
Antonín Mikeš’s tenement house in Hradec Králové, 290 Mostecká Street

1897
Antonín Sluka’s house in Hradec Králové, 151 and 152 Velké náměstí Square

1903
Morušovka Villa in Hradec Králové, 374 Plácelova Street

1903

Karel Wipler’s villa in Hradec Králové, 376 Orlické Embankment

1903
Mr. and Mrs. Hájek’s villa in Hradec Králové, 377 Nezvalova Street

1903–1904
Václav Rejchl’s own house in Hradec Králové, 390 Pospíšilova Street

1904
Karel Rabas’s villa in Hradec Králové, 314 Pospíšilova Street

1907–1912
Tenement houses in Hradec Králové, 312, 444 and 520 Švendova Street

1908–1910
Ing. Jan Sixt’s villa in Hradec Králové, 437 Střelecká Street

1909–1910
Karel Janda’s villa in Hradec Králové, 461 Střelecká Street

1909–1910
Mr. and Mrs. Kavalír’s villa in Nový Hradec Králové, 440 Zámeček Street

1909–1910
Mr. and Mrs. Mayer’s villa in Nový Hradec Králové, 38 Zámeček Street

1913–1915
Jan Hus house in Hradec Králové, 121 Kavčí plácek Street

Vila Karla Wiplera, 2015. Photo: Jiří Zikmund. Zdroj: © kontrapunkt, z. ú. Vlastní vila Václava Rejchla / Klumparova vila (současný stav), 2018. Photo: Jiří Zikmund. Zdroj: © kontrapunkt, z. ú. Husův sbor, pohled z Kavčího plácku (stav před rekonstrukcí fasády), 2012. Photo: Jiří Zikmund. Zdroj: © kontrapunkt, z. ú. Vila Jana Sixty (současný stav), 2019. Photo: Jiří Zikmund. Zdroj: © kontrapunkt, z. ú. Vila Morušovka (současný stav), 2019. Photo: Jiří Zikmund. Zdroj: © kontrapunkt, z. ú. Vila Karla Viewegha (současný stav), 2019. Photo: Jiří Zikmund. Zdroj: © kontrapunkt, z. ú. Vila Karla Jandy (současný stav), 2019. Photo: Jiří Zikmund. Zdroj: © kontrapunkt, z. ú. Vila Jana Kavalíra, (současný stav), 2021. Photo: Jiří Zikmund. Zdroj: © kontrapunkt, z. ú.
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