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The Prague City Council, officially the Council of the Capital City of Prague ( Czech: Rada hlavního města Prahy (RHMP) ), is the executive body of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. It is appointed by the Prague City Assembly, who elects the council from their own members.
Similar to the previous riot, these attacks involved a number of councilors being thrown from the windows of several town halls. However, unlike the previous incident, it did not lead to outright war. The city’s most notable defenestration took place in 1618 in what is known simply as the Defenestration of Prague.
The First Defenestration of Prague involved the killing of several members of the city council by a crowd of Czech Hussites on 30 July 1419. Jan Želivský, a Hussite priest at the church of the Virgin Mary of the Snows, led his congregation on a procession through the streets of Prague to the New Town Hall on Charles Square. The town council ...
The four independent boroughs that had formerly constituted Prague were eventually proclaimed a single city in 1784. Those four cities were Hradčany (the Castle District, west and north of the Castle), Little Quarter (Malá Strana, south of the Castle), Old Town (Staré Město, on the east bank opposite the Castle) and New Town (Nové Město, further south and east).
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Popular uprisings in 1419, led by the Prague priest Jan Želivský, included the throwing of city councillors from the windows of the New Town Hall in the incident known as the first Defenestration of Prague.
The Prague Council was based there until the end of the Second World War, but today the hall is used by the Lord Mayor for official events. The hall bears the name of the painter Václav Brožík, the author of the large sized canvasses.
The council hall (or also the council room) is the most valuable relic of the city hall and the centre of all the former course of events, which was established in the second half of the 15 th century. The entrance is decorated by a Renaissance marble portal with an inscription Senatus.
