place
St Wenceslas Penitentiary
the penitentiary
also: St Wenzels Strafhaus, Svatováclavská trestnice
The old St Wenceslas prison in the New Town, half pulled down by Rilke's time; its cell walls, scored with prisoners' prayers and curses, become for Rezek a book of folk-poetry.
Reading notes
- Two Stories of Prague §131 St. Wenceslas penitentiary
The old St Wenceslas prison (Svatováclavská trestnice) in Prague's New Town, by Rilke's day half pulled down; its cell-walls are scored with prisoners' scratchings.