Svobody Street - connection of the medieval square with the railway station. It broke through the Baroque fortification and gave direction to future development. It is not only join of two sites but even symbolic connection of two different periods.

This street also connects two height levels - the square with the railway station situated on the southeastern hill. The project concerns the flat part of the join.

From the A69 Architects Company documentation


Record from 1983: Acccording to the Traffic Board proposal the National Commitee December plenary session approved pedestrian zone establishing in the section from Czechoslovac-Soviet Friendship Street (present Svobody Street) to Marxova Street (nowadays Evropská Street)...

Record from 1988: Pedestrian zone arrangement in Svobody Street in the section from Evropská Street to King George Square (Náměstí Krále Jiřího) was completed on 10.5. - benches, litterbins, containers with bushes and other plants were installed and facades of several houses were restored and painted.

In June Hotels and Restaurants Company installed a fast food kiosk near the crossroad where subterranean public toilets used to be.

Later this pedestrian zone supplement became meeting place for drunk people in the evenings and was removed in 2003.

From the Calendary of Building Development in Cheb after World War II by the authors Ing. Arch. Luděk Vystyd and Ing. Jaroslav Krejčí


Some time in 1996 there was effort to remove dustbins from the pedestrian zone which was managed in 2000. Since 2003 when Municipal Management Department was established in the town hall seasonal planting of flowers was realized - Spring, Summer and sometimes Autumn, first in concrete flower pots from the communist times. It always was pleasure for the citizens. The flower pots as well as the litterbins were replaced in 2004, howewer, they were destroyed by unknown hooligans in 2007. In the same year new litterbins and ground-fixed benches were purchased...This new furnishing with metal construction has been preserved nearly without damage up to now.

From documentation by RNDr. Jaroslav Boček, Municipal Management Department chief


Pedestrian zone reconstruction according to prestigeous A69-Architects studio design was approved by the municipal council as early as in 2000 under the condition of gaining grant which was not managed then.

A modified design by the same authors was agreed in 2008 again, with more modest budget for the case of gaining no grant.

But this time we were successful! The town managed to gain grant in the amount of 122,4 million CZK (of which 112,5 million comes from the EU and the rest from the state) from the Regional Operation Programme NUTS II Northwest for this generous pedestrian zone reconstruction.

„We are making great effort for having the pedestrian zone. I am very pleased that we are so close to it." says the mayor of Cheb, MUDr Jan Svoboda. „Cheb deserves reconstruction of this backbone street. Realization of the young architects´ vision (studio mentioned above - Boris Redčenkov, Prokop Tomášek a Jaroslav Wertig) surely will make part of our town more pleasant and refreshed."

„Positive thing is, that the reconstruction will be realized as we wanted, with no restrictions," the vice-mayor, doc. Miroslav Plevný continues. „Total costs are expected to exceed 137,2 million but thanks to the grant the town only pays 14,8 million CZK."

From the press report by Mgr. Martina Kuželová, gazetteer for municipal officeRegional Northwest Cohesion Operation Programme