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Kunštát chapel |
Kunštát chapel - baroque-style "Our Lady Visitation"
rotund chapel erected in 1760 on the main ridge in the height of 1035m
served to church service of woodmen's families, mostly of Tyrol native.
They have been invited to domiciliate here for logging wood needed in
local glassworks and distant silver mines in Kutná Hora. After 1945 the
compartment was destroyed except for one sculpture which has been transferred
to Zdobnice church in early 1960s. The only relique remaining here is
a pedestal with inscriptions informing about Our Lady and Lord icons and
about the chapel donator M. Kašpar.
General repair of the chapel in 1967 was accompanied by
minor instalment to commemorate the Munich Arrangement and building of
fortification system. Unfortunately this occasional activity has got no
continuation. A project of the Mountain Guard, to install here a memorial
to mountain victims, has never been put into life. Recently the empty
chapel is restored .
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Reserve "By Kunštát chapel" |
Nearby, a typical moss biotope laid on a peat layer
about 90 cm thick is protected (2,68 ha reserve "By Kunštát chapel"
has been declared in 1973).
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