Лобковицький палац на вул. Влашській Lobkovytsky Palace on the street. Wallachian

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The wealthy and influential Lobkowicz family had more than one palace and house in Prague. This one, one of the best - on Vlaska. Giovanni Battista Alliprandi built this magnificent palace in 1703-1707. Its majestic Baroque street faç ade is impressive, but it is worth seeing the faç ade overlooking the garden. He is very dynamic and extremely beautiful. From 1753 to 1927 the palace belonged to the Lobkowicz family. Beethoven and Weber gave concerts here in the dome hall. Beginning in 1927, when the palace was sold to the state, it housed the Ministry of Education and various institutes of the Academy of Sciences. Since 1974, the palace is occupied by the Embassy of Germany, and later - the united Germany.

This building is associated with an interesting history of the collapse of the socialist camp. When the East Germans began arriving en masse in Czechoslovakia in 1989 to seek political asylum at the German embassy, ​ ​ they were housed in a tent camp right in the garden of the Lobkowicz Palace.
On September 30, German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher spoke from the embassy's balcony, explaining that about 4.000 people would be sent to West Germany free of charge. The East Germans left their Trabants en masse with the keys in the door on which they arrived in Prague. These events contributed to the birth of such an unusual monument - "Trabant" on human feet (sculptor David Cherny). Four months later, the communist regime fell in Czechoslovakia.