Located close to Havlíčkův Brod hospital, the Trnka Villa is associated with the town’s long-serving doctor Pavel Trnka (1885–1973). However, he only purchased the villa after moving to Brod in the second half of the 1920s. The villa’s builder was another prominent figure of his time—Josef Kliment (1859–1927), a specialist teacher at the girls’ middle school and later head of the complex of municipal and primary schools.

At the beginning of the 20th century, he chose a plot in the newly expanding villa district at the foot of Prempír Hill, near the hospital grounds, as the site for his house. Although the villa’s plot directly adjoins the hospital land, its orientation towards a quiet side street, together with the garden, still gives it a pleasant sense of seclusion today. Interestingly, the main entrance was moved from Husova street to what is now Šubrtova street as part of a later modification to the project. 

The villa was designed by the local construction firm of František and Otakar Liška. Traditional floor plans were combined with a restrained facade design, whose only distinctive feature was perhaps the lunette window in the raised section of the building facing the park below the hospital. The owner took advantage of the installation of the water mains for the hospital and had running water brought “to the laundry room, bathroom, hallway, and closets.”
He was active in the local agricultural association, where he considered ways to promote rural development, and he appears to have remained faithful to the values of practical and industrious management in his personal life as well. The villa’s plot also included a single-storey utility building with stalls for cattle and pigs, as well as poultry runs and woodsheds. This structure was later converted for residential use, while new farm facilities were built elsewhere. The residential spaces did not only serve the owner—some of them were also rented out.

The head physician Pavel Trnka—an enthusiastic sportsman and hunter—added a garage to the villa during the interwar period, as well as a garden pavilion or summerhouse and tennis courts. In the 1950s, under pressure from the new regime, he resigned first as hospital director and later as head physician. He then set up a medical practice on the villa’s ground floor, which he ran almost until the end of his life. After 1989, the ground floor housed first a dental surgery and later a dental hygiene practice, which required the addition of a small, stylistically neutral, single-storey annex on the north side of the villa.

In Havlíčkův Brod—as in the rest of the country—it is rare for a villa to have remained continuously in the hands of the same family which owned it between the wars. In the case of the Trnka Villa, the family name as well as the family line endures. The current owner actively cares for the memory of the place, which is connected not only with the head physician Pavel Trnka but also with Abbot Bohumil Vít Tajovský (1912–1999), who found refuge here after his release from prison in the late 1960s and remained until his return to his home monastery in Želiv after 1989.