People from Krnov can advise the council on what to do with the villa

Krnov (Bruntálsko) - The councilors from Krnov are deciding how to utilize the historic villa built in 1914 based on the project of the renowned Vienna architect Otto Prutscher. Citizens can also help them through a survey on the city's website. The villa previously housed an infant institute, and the city now proposes to operate a kindergarten with sheltered housing, an exhibition of individualistic modernism, an alternative primary school, or an institution for non-profit organizations, said Krnov spokesperson Dita Círová today.
    "We expect that citizens will lean towards one of the four proposals or suggest other options for how to use the building," Círová told CTK. The city council will deal with the responses from the citizens and the results of the voting, while the final decision on the use of the premises will be made by the municipal council.
    Initially, the councilors approved that the main building would serve the needs of a nursery and kindergarten. The town hall invested over a million crowns into its reconstruction, but last spring the councilors stepped back from the plan and sought other uses for the monument. Resolving the issue was then postponed to the new council.
    The villa, which is a cultural monument, was built by the significant Krnov industrialist Theodor Flemmich, who lived there until 1948. Since the 1950s, the complex of buildings along with the garden served as an infant institute. In 2003, the region closed the institute due to unprofitability and transferred the buildings and land to the city.
    The villa features a wooden-paneled entrance hall with an elaborately carved staircase, stained glass windows with zodiac motifs, heraldic symbols of the city and Silesia, and some furniture. The property also includes an outbuilding, a greenhouse, lands with a decorative garden, and two functioning fountains.