Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: hunger wall

Here's another view of St. Vitus and the Hradcany, from one of the gates of the Hladova Zed. The exposure was hard to get right when I shot it, even with five brackets, so I took the best one and burned it in Photoshop, and this is what I got.

The Hladova Zed, or Hunger Wall, is another landmark of Prague, built during the reign of Karluv IV as a government jobs project for the unemployed. It got its name, supposedly, because it prevented workers from going hungry, but it may have also been intended for use during a seige.

For a city wall that was, at least allegedly, never intended for use, the Hladova Zed is very well fortified with fortresses for troops, ammunition, weapons, and so on, especially towards the top of Petrin Hill. Most of these buildings are unoccupied, though, without even any ruins or museums inside them, so I don't know whether they were ever completed originally.

Here's another picture towards the top of the Hladova Zed. It's hard to tell whether these buildings were ever occupied, as there doesn't appear to have ever been glass in the windows.

This is over the Most Legii from Narodni Divadlo. The Hladova Zed, or Hunger Wall, can be seen on Petrin Hill in the snow.