The story of the house
History of the Míča House
The house is named after composer František Antonín Míča (1694–1744), who worked in Jaroměřice in the service of Count Questenberg.
An older house than it seems
At first glance the Míča House looks like a classicist townhouse from the 19th century — and historians long saw it that way. A building-history survey in 2019–2020, however, revealed a far older core hidden in its walls: Gothic masonry from the founding of the town (13th–14th century), enlarged and raised by a storey in the Renaissance 16th century.
The vaulted cellars beneath the house and fragments of a sgraffito façade uncovered under the plaster date from the Renaissance. Remnants of a smoke kitchen and an exceptionally valuable late-Baroque mansard roof truss also survive. The house carries six centuries within its walls — and you walk through them during your stay.
Count Questenberg and baroque Jaroměřice
The Questenberg family — above all Count Johann Adam von Questenberg — turned 18th-century Jaroměřice into a flourishing centre of baroque culture, with music and opera of European standing performed at the chateau.
It was here that František Antonín Míča worked — kapellmeister and tenor at the count’s court. He composed the opera “The Origin of Jaroměřice in Moravia” (1730), famed as the very first opera ever sung in Czech. Míča owned the house, and the count, who held him in great favour, contributed to its rebuilding too. The house bears the composer’s name, and our apartments that of the count’s family.
From nationalisation to renewal
The 20th century was hard on the house. Under communism it was nationalised, the family forced to leave; the father spent ten years imprisoned on the basis of a fabricated trial. After decades in public hands the house fell into disrepair.
In a run-down state it was finally returned to the descendants of its original owners. Today it is undergoing a gradual, sensitive restoration that preserves its historic elements — vaults, wooden floors and the original layout — while adding modern comfort. Forty years of neglect cannot be undone overnight; all the more reason we are glad the house is coming back to life and can welcome guests once more.