Žižka's Stone Table

After 1790 building along the Tábor road became more plentiful; at that time Jan Ignác, knight Eisner of Eisenstein, a councillor of the Prague magistracy, built a large coaching inn here, the Old Pankrác, which stands to this day. The building material is said to have been brought from the demolished church of Corpus Christi on what is now Charles Square; from there too was brought the stone altar which until recently stood before the inn as a table for carters. Out of this the imagination of the people made Žižka's table, and for that reason the inn is called At Žižka's Stone Table. For a long time, moreover, houses were built here only on the side where the church stands, and so it used to be said in jest that at Pankrác they roast their geese on one side only.