! ! ! BEWARE OF RUMORS, NONSENSE, AND UNVERIFIED INFORMATION ! ! ! No one has ever done God knows what at the Pfaffenhof Villa—it’s just a rumor, nonsense. The alleged torture of prisoners from the Litoměřice concentration camp and prisoners from the Small Fortress in Terezín by SS officers —Führungsstab Kommando B5—who were quartered here and had their detachment office right at the entrance to the Richard underground factory, HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN AND IS MERELY A FABRICATION BASED ON EVENTS FROM THE FINAL PERIOD AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II!!! Pfaffenhof Villa A Neo-Gothic villa dating from the mid-19th century (designed and built in the late 1840s and early 1850s by Ignaz A. Gaube, son of the builder J. Gaube) and was built on the site of the demolished 14th-century St. Nicholas Winegrowers’ Chapel for the wealthy Pfaff family; that is why the villa bears the name Pfaffenhof, and locals—that is, the people and elders of Litoměřice—remember it by the name “PFAFFÁK” or “VEVEŘÍ,” after the national property administrator Mr. Veverka, who lived in the villa after it was nationalized following the end of World War II. The villa was designed for the wealthy Pfaff family at the turn of the 1840s and 1850s, and it belonged to the Pfaff family until nearly the start of World War II; then, for some reason, they had to move out, and toward the end of World War II,World War II, the SS – Führungsstab Komando B5 was stationed here; in other words, only the officers of this Komando B5 were housed there (which had its “detached office” right next to the Richard I factory—not far from the entrance to the underground). After the war, a man named Veverka (who was a national administrator) lived here and managed the building during the postwar period; that is why residents recall the villa in their memories as “Veveří,” but also as “Pfaffák,”due to the name of the villa’s first owners, the Pfaff family. The builder, Ignáz A. Gaube, built his own estate a short distance from the Pfaff family’s villa,a few dozen meters from the villa across a road called Michalovická, which separated the two structures (the road runs from Litoměřice, past Radobýl, to the village of Mchalovice and continues on). And so this farmstead was named “Gaubenhoff” because the builder, Mr. Gaube, lived there. As for the Pfaffenhof Villa, all sorts of nonsense and rumors have circulated about the history of the Pfaff Villa, about ghosts in the villa, and even about the torture of Jewish prisoners from the Small Fortress in Terezín (the labor/concentration camp in Terezín), who were exploited as a labor force to build the underground Nazi “Richard” factory in the former Richard limestone mine. These are nothing more than urban legends, rumors, and hearsay.