Byšičky
Byšičky is a desert in the Czech Republic . It is located in the cadastral area of the town of Lázně Bělohrad in the Okres Jičín . The village was first mentioned in 1318. It went down in the Thirty Years War . Only the pilgrimage church of St. Peter and Paul from the middle of the 13th century and the adjoining cemetery are preserved .
The pilgrimage church has a Romanesque apse and an originally Gothic nave . After Gothic and Baroque renovations, it was given its current appearance in 1854. The tower was added in 1850. Between 1851 and 1880 the hermit Augustin Hoření lived near the church , who founded the Way of the Cross . The devastated pilgrimage route received new stations in 2002 and was re-consecrated.
The abandoned settlement hill is surrounded by a forest belt in which there are five ponds. Wet meadows with some rare orchid species stretch along its banks . The moist meadow and forest complex is a retreat in the middle of the intensively agricultural area , especially for amphibians such as the fire-bellied toad . It has therefore been protected as a natural monument on 90 hectares since 1998 .
The location of Byšičky became known as a model and inspiration for the romantic ballad Svatební košile (The Ghost Bride ), which Karel Jaromír Erben published in his lyric collection Kytice z pověstí národních in 1853 . In it, an abandoned girl follows the ghost of her dead groom to a lonely nocturnal churchyard, where she has to defend herself against a horde of revenants . The ballad was set to music by Antonín Dvořák in 1884 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 28 ″ N , 15 ° 36 ′ 57 ″ E