Career
The brothers Ladislav and Julius Rott (1845-1876) took over the family firm in 1872. They began to expand the activities and the company"s premises, yet after Julius" early death Ladislav had to continue on his own. After November 1889 Ladislav"s proposal to begin with the planning and construction of Prague Underground, submitted in summer 1898 to the Municipal Council of the Royal Capital City of Prague, was published in the Czechoslovakian media.
In 1896-1897 the firm reconstructed a house at northern
142 at Malé náměstí with frescos designed by Mikoláš Aleš and executed by his collaborators Arnošt Hofbauer and Ladislav Novák. The main of the Rott houses, claimed by Vladimir J. Rott (*1950) to have been "robbed" the second time in 1993, currently houses a hotel, before that a crystal and glass store.
