A typical street of Husovice - with low village-like houses built in the 19th century.

Once described by Nobel prize laureate Jaroslav Seifert as a “workers’ republic”, Husovice is a poetic mix of a former village with an industrial zone at the western bank of Svitava river. It’s a part of Brno-sever district but it is very different from nearby neighborhoods Černá Pole and Lesná, both belonging to Brno-sever as well.

Pros

• Low rents.
• Cheap pubs.
• Romantic industrial quarter.

Cons

• Higher levels of criminality, esp. burglary and pocket-picking.
• Older houses.

Do you like reading Kerouac or Ginsberg and smoking cigarettes at rusty old balconies? Move to Husovice today.

You’ll love Husovice, if:

• …you are a poor student and live on a budget.
• …you are a free-spirited person, willing to live in a hipster neighborhood.

Don’t move to Husovice, if:

• you are looking for a “nice district”, period.

Best restaurant

I have studied a high school in Husovice for 7 years and never found anything which could be called a really great restaurant. However, there is an old pub with great atmosphere, called Mikulášek and located at the cross of Elgartova st. and Nováčkova st.

If live in Husovice and want to have a nice dinner, why don’t you walk 5 minutes to district Černá Pole?

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Links

Husovice has a nice Facebook group with a gallery of old photos. You can learn something about the history of Husovice on a machine-translated Wikipedia page.

Update: Antik Bazar closed in July 2010. Its owners now run an antique shop at Dominikánská st. Read an up-to-date article about Brno antique shops and flea markets to learn more!

Few years ago, I discovered a great antique shop “Antik Bazar” at Husovická st. in district Husovice. If you want to buy an original souvenir from Brno, such is an old map, old postcard or a badge of some former communist factory, this is the place to go.

Antik Bazar at 4 Husovická st

Badges are stored in a huge dose – there are thousands of them, but due to the sharp pins it is impossible to get any other than those on the top. On the plus side, the price of one badge is CZK 1 (€0.04).

Badges of state-owned companies of the communist era

There are dozens of postcards from Brno to chose from, with prices varying between CZK 1 and CZK 2 (€0.04-0.08).

Postcard from Brno by Josef Sekal, printed in Severografia Děčín. Dated before 1983

Sometimes there is more Brno memorabilia to buy — old ashtrays, beer glasses etc. Of course, “brunensia” is not the only kind of things sold in the antique shop; there are many books, old cameras, oldschool furniture, military uniforms, watches, sunglasses… — so if you have a hour to spend by smelling the history, take a tram #4 to Husovice!

Map

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