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Religious monuments built over the centuries are an essential part of the cultural heritage of our nation. Urban churches, rural churches, chapels, monasteries, hospitals, places of pilgrimage, Stations of the Cross and Calvary in the fields, all these objects had become the distinctive dominant features of towns, villages and are part of the Czech cultural landscape aspect.

In most villages the oldest preserved buildings are represented by religious monuments. Hradec Králové Region offers in the art-historical terms a whole range of artistic styles – from Romanesque elements up to functionalist architecture. The most significant in religious buildings in our region is the Baroque style represented by masters such as Santini, Alliprandi and Dientzenhofer. In the twentieth century important buildings of modern architecture also began to appear and were built especially by “national” Czechoslovakian Church.

Although religious monuments cannot be visited as a separate thematic category, like castles and chateaux, they form part of the cultural values of towns and villages and deserve the tourists´ attention.

Bohdašín – place of pilgrimage - Rokole

A place of pilgrimage with the Chapel of Our Lady, which was built above a spring of healing water and the church dedicated to Virgin Mary. The wooden structure of Loreta and the provincial house of nuns.

www.turistika.cz/turisticke-cile/detail/rokole

Borovnice – place of pilgrimage - Homole

A Classical church of Our Lady of Sorrows from 1692, with a unique staircase, lined with baluster railing decorated with sculptures. A unique monument stands on a rocky hill in the middle of the village. The complex includes two chapels.

www.homol.estranky.cz/stranka/historie-homole

Broumov – Benedictine monastery

The monastery and the St. Vojtěch church - the national cultural monuments. Today´s appearance is the result of reconstruction designed by K. I. Dientzenhofer. A rarely preserved monastic library with the only copy of the Turin Shroud north of the Alps.

www.klaster-broumov.cz

Broumov – Church of Virgin Mary

The church is from the 14th century and is the oldest wooden church in Bohemia. A single-aisle church with octagonal tower has partially preserved colorful decorations from the 15th century. Since 2008 it has been the national historic landmark.

www.klaster-broumov.cz/hrbitovni-kostel.htm

Červený Kostelec – Church of St. Jacob

At the place of an originally Gothic church from the 14th century a single-aisle church in the second half of the 17th century was built. The church was rebuilt in the Baroque style, probably in a close collaboration with K. I. Dientzenhofer. The bell tower stands separately from the northwest direction.

www.cervenykostelec.cz

Dobruška – St. Spirit Church

The church is located at the cemetery on the way out of Dobruška town on the way to the Orlické Mountains. Originally of Gothic style, a number of times rebuilt, for instance in Renessaince style around 1530. The massive square bell tower was built in early Baroque style in 1687. Known from the TV series of Jirásek´s F. L. Věk.

www.dobruska.cz

Dolní Adršpach – Křížový vrch (Cross Hill)

An isolated ridge of sandstone blocks with steep slopes. Křížový vrch (Cross Hill) was named after until now preserved Stations of the Cross, whose individual stops are carved, in the form of reliefs, on the rock walls.

www.adrspach.cz

Hlavňov – Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows (Hvězda)

A Baroque stone chapel on the ridge of the Bromovské stěny (Broumov Walls) was built at the request of the abbot of Broumov. The central building in the shape of a five-pointed star within a circle, has a rectangular portal, to which a stone bridge leads through rocks.

www.adrspach.cz

Hostinné – former Franciscan monastery with a church (Museum of Ancient Art)

It was built as an early Baroque complex. The church is also in this style, undirected, rectangular, nave church with a side polygonal chapel. The building of the monastery serves as a museum of ancient art with hundreds of copies of Greek and Roman sculptures.

www.hostinne.info

Hradec Králové – Chapel of Virgin Mary

Located in the Slezské Předměstí (Slezské suburb) in the Rožberk locality. It is a unique example of the Romanesque style.

Hradec Králové – canon´s houses

A line of originally Renaissance houses for members of the Chapter of the St. Spirit Cathedral (chrám svatého Ducha). The houses were rebuilt in the Baroque style, according to the project of the architect J. B. Santini, as two-story buildings with richly decorated gables.

Hradec Králové – St. Spirit Cathedral

A Gothic brick building on the Main square (Velké náměstí) was founded by the Queen Elisabeth Rejčka in 1307. At the end of the 18th century the cathedral was adjusted into Baroque style and later rebuilt into the Neo-Gothic style. The majestic building externally bears all Gothic architectural elements.

www.dekanstvihk.cz

Hradec Králové – Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

A monumental two-winged building with a square tower was built in the Pražské Předměstí (Pražské suburb) in the years 1928-1932 in the functionalist style. At present it dominates the square of 28th October (náměstí 28. října) in the town center.

www.hradeckymkrajem.cz/kraj/hk/kostel-bozskeho-srdce-pane

Hradec Králové – St. Nicolas Church

A wooden Orthodox Church building dated from 1502 - 1510 stood in the village of Habura in Eastern Slovakia. In 1935 it was dismantled and built again in Jirásek´s orchards (Jiráskovy sady). An interesting example of wooden folk architecture.

www.turistika.cz/turisticke-cile/detail/hradec-kralove-kostel-sv-mikulase-v-jiraskovych-sadech

Hradec Králové – Marian column on the Main square (Velké náměstí)

Sculptures of St. Anne, St. Ivan, St. Venceslav, St. K. Boromejský and St. John of Nepomuky stand on the pedestal. Around the column there is a stone balustrade in whose corners there are other statues. The column is completed with the sculpture of the Virgin Mary standing on the globe.

www.kralovehradecko-info.cz

Hradec Králové – Complex of the Priest Ambrož

The Czechoslovak Hussite Church complex - a complex of church, columbarium, residential buildings, the bishopric and rectory from the years 1926 - 1929 is a candidate to be the national cultural monument. The buildings built in the functionalist style are the works of Josef Gočár.

www.ccsh.cz

Hronov – Church of All Saints

Originally a Gothic building was abandoned during the Thirty Years War. In the 18th century the church was extended and rebuilt in the Baroque style as a single-aisle church with a pentagonal presbytery. Notable is a standing alone massive bell tower. It is rectangular, brick with wooden ceiling.

www.mestohronov.cz

Konecchlumí – Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

The church is a proof of pure Baroque style. A prismatic tower with a cupola characterizes a single-aisle church. In the interior there was installed the Stations of the Cross at the beginning of this century, life´s work of the painter Vladimír Komárek.

www.podchlumi.cz

Kuks – The Holy Trinity Church and Hospital

A national cultural monument. A unique Baroque complex of religious and secular buildings was founded at the beginning of the 18th century by Count F. A. Špork as a centre of spiritual life. A part of the complex is a lapidary of sculptures by M. B. Braun – allegory of Virtues and Vices.

www.hospital-kuks.cz

Liberk – St. Peter and St. Paul´s Church

The wooden church with a bell tower and the parish is a unique complex that demonstrates the well-preserved folk architecture. It was built between 1691 and 1696. At the beginning of the 19th century it was underpinned up to the height of two meters and in 1914 restored.

www.obec-liberk.cz

Neratov – Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary

A place of pilgrimage from the 17th century with the church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary in the municipality of Neratov. The monumental Baroque church from 1723, which burned down in 1945, is a protected monument. Its facade is repaired. The church has a unique partly glass roof.

www.neratov.cz

Slatiny – Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary

The church was built under the order of Countess Anna Šliková on a gentle hill in the middle of the village. The building combines in the perfect symbiosis two styles – Gothic and Rococo style.

www.turistika.cz/turisticke-cile/detail/slatiny-kostel-nanebevzeti-panny-marie

Slavoňov – Church of St. John the Baptist

A timbered single-aisle church from 1553 is a unique architectural monument. A Renaissance bell tower with a wooden formwork at the top.

http://www.ivo-turista.yc.cz/slavonov.php

www.slavonov.cz

Smiřice – Chapel of the Epiphany

The chapel belongs to an important group of the Czech Baroque buildings. On the vaults of central oval building there are ceiling paintings. The main altar is decorated with the work of leading Baroque master Petr Bandl “Adoration of the Magi”. Accessible upon the agreement at the Town Office.

www.kaple.smirice.cz

Sněžka – St. Lawrence Chapel

In the 90th of the last century the tradition of religious pilgrimages to the highest peak of the Czech Republic was renewed on the St. Lawrence Day (10th August). The chapel had been there since the 17th century.

www.snezka.net

Stanovice – Stations of the Cross of the 21st century

A set of sculptures in the landscape between Stanovice and Žireč with the motto “The Story of Suffering and Hope of Man”. The set with fifteen stops of contemporary Stations of the Cross was created together by leading Czech sculptors in the years 2005 to 2008.

www.revitalizacekuks.cz/krizova-cesta-21-stoleti

Stárkov – Stations of the Cross

It dates back to the second half of the 18th century. It is rarely preserved, decorated with rich figural reliefs carved in sandstone. It leads from the cemetery into the landscape.

www.starkov.cz

Trutnov – Baroque column of the Holy Trinity

An eleven-metre Baroque column from 1704 stands on the central Krakonoš´s square (Krakonošovo náměstí). It is decorated with eight statues of saints, placed in two circles.

www.trutnov.cz

Valdice – former Carthusian monastery

A unique early Baroque complex (founded in 1630 by Albrecht von Wallenstein) with a central church of St. Joseph, today church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary, was after the dissolution of the monastery in 1855-1856 rebuilt into prison. As a prison it serves until today.

cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdická_kartouza

Veliš – Church of St. Venceslav

The church was built on the site of a Gothic building in the 18th century. It is a beautiful example of Baroque illusive style with richly divided facade and whole range of Baroque elements.

www.velis.cz

Žireč – Church of St. Anne

A former convent early Baroque church, single-aisle with two low prismatic towers. The space is enlarged by five chapels. There was also established the Jesuit residence. After the abolition of the order it was transformed into a chateau and presently it is a medical facility. There is a precious organ.

www.trutnovsko.net