Building no. 60
The first surviving written mention of a burgher’s house on the corner of Velká Street and Dlouhá Street dates from 1645, when the Burgomaster of Ostrava Jiřík Matys solid it to Václav Tvorczek for 370 gulden. Three years later, Tvorczek sold the house for the same price to a master furrier named Matouš Bytomský. The building was sold with its fittings and furnishings – a table, chairs, shelves, a wardrobe behind the table, and a wardrobe “in the chamber in the wall”. The subsequent owners were also members of the Bytomský family, and they also worked in the fur trade. In 1777 the house was purchased for 900 gulden by the butcher Anton Scholtis; the contract of sale includes the first information we have about the interiors. One of the conditions set out in the contract was that the seller (the tailor Kryštof Steuner) would retain living quarters “in the front” of the house, as well as loft space (also in the front of the house), a vaulted chamber with a cellar, and a small garden. The next owners were clothmakers. In 1836 the building was still a masonry structure with one floor (or perhaps with a wooden upper floor), and its arcade was made of wood. A vaulted masonry arcade and an upper floor were added in 1866. A valuation report from this year describes a two-floor masonry structure with two small cellars in the front part of the building and a slate roof. On the Dlouhá Street side, a single-floor masonry structure abutted the main building; it contained three small apartments and a hall, plus a small cellar with its own entrance from the courtyard side. The courtyard contained masonry outbuildings – a stable with a vaulted roof, a woodshed with a passageway leading through to the courtyard, and a single-floor structure on Pivovarská Street containing a stable and an apartment. In 1885, a new roof was built over the front part of the building, based on plans by the building contractor Franz Böhm. In 1892 all the damaged vaults in the arcade and the two inn-rooms on the ground floor in the front part of the building were dismantled and replaced by new vaults mounted on transoms. Four years later, the building was purchased by Markus Haberfeld, who launched a major rebuilding project that was implemented in several phases between 1897 and 1900.
The innkeeper Markus Haberfeld was born in Strážnice (South Moravia) in 1862. He came to Ostrava (specifically to Vítkovice) in 1877, and he worked as a waiter in Sigmund Groag’s inn. In 1896 he bought building no. 60 in Velká Street from the heirs of the previous owner Wilhelm Kremer. He opened a kosher restaurant in the building, as well as Ostrava’s first popular cabaret with a master of ceremonies. Haberfeld was an active member of the association of inn-keepers for the Moravská Ostrava judicial district; he served on the association’s board, and for a certain time he was its chairman. Meetings of the association were often held at Haberfeld’s premises. In 1910 he sold the building to his youngest brother Rudolf and moved to Vienna.
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