ZAZDĚNY BRNĚNSKÝ RADNÍ
PODLE POVĚSTI BYL POTRESTÁN V ROCE 1422 ZAZDĚNÍM ZA ZIVA ZA TAJNĚ PRIPRAVOVANE OTEVRENÍ MĚSTSKÝCH BRAN HUSITSKEMU VOJSKU.
JEHO TVÁR-ÚDAJNĚ STALETÍMI ZKAMENĚLÁ-MÁ DODNËS VAROVAT KAŽDÉHO PŘED JAKOUKOLIV ZRADOU MĚSTA BRNA.

The legend says that during the Hussite wars (wars of the Christian movement between itself and other Christian movements) the Hussites besieged the city of Brno. Inside the city there were supporters of the movement who wanted to open the city gates to the occupiers. The plot was discovered and they were executed. The head of the head of the conspirators, Councilor Haas, was impaled on a pole and placed in the town hall as a warning to traitors.
The legend continues and says that after a while they carved his head in stone and put it on the wall, to keep the warning against traitors.

The head was photographed on the same day by the same photographer Click for a larger image

The next photo of her taken by the same photographer on the same day illustrates the dimensions of the head Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
BRNO COUNCILMAN WALLED UP
ACCORDING TO THE RUMOR, HE WAS PUNISHED IN 1422 BY BEING GIVEN ALIVE FOR SECRETLY PREPARING TO OPEN THE CITY GATES TO THE HUSSITE TROOPS.
HIS FACE - ALLEGEDLY PETRIFIED FOR CENTURIES - IS SUPPOSED TO WARN EVERYONE AGAINST ANY BETRAYAL OF THE CITY OF BRNA.