About the construction of the Czech National House in the then predominantly German Trutnov

Even though the town of Trutnov was originally predominantly German, there was always a Czech minority living here, which after 1848 did not have a bed of roses, because this period was marked by growing and radicalizing national movements, on both sides, even though the German one used in its the benefit of both government authorities and the power of local large-scale manufacturers and tradesmen, who were mainly German-speaking. To this…