John Nepomuk Chapel (Prachatice, Dolní brána)

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Side view (2019)

The St. John Nepomuk Chapel ( Czech Kaple svatého Jana Nepomuckého) in Prachatice ( German Prachatitz ), a town in the Jihočeský kraj region (South Bohemia) in the Czech Republic , is a listed chapel at the Pisek Gate (Dolní brána, also Lower Gate ) . The baroque building is dated to 1774.

location

The chapel in the foreground on the left

The chapel of St. John Nepomuk stands in a small square in front of the gate of the Piseker Gate. The help of the saint, who was drowned in Prague in 1393, was asked for with water and travel hazards. Another Johannes Nepomuk Chapel stands at the city's former Passau Gate .

The building was placed under protection on May 3, 1958 as a cultural monument and on October 1, 1981, it was included in the area of ​​the municipal monument reserve in downtown Prachatic.

Web links

Commons : John Nepomuk Chapel on Dolní brána  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. a b Kaple sv. Jana Nepomuckého (catalog no.1000125215) ÚSKP 14809 / 3-3503 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
  2. Prachatice (catalog number 1000084239) ÚSKP 1041 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 49.6 ″  N , 13 ° 59 ′ 59.3 ″  E