Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Mohelnice nad Jizerou)
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The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Mohelnice nad Jizerou is a stone Romanesque sacred building from the 12th century. The church in the middle of the village belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Mnichovo Hradiště .
architecture
The Romanesque gallery church, consecrated to the Virgin Mary, dates from the 3rd quarter of the 12th century. Since gallery churches and rotundas were typical forms for sacred buildings in Romanesque castles, the existence of a fortified manorial seat is assumed in the place to which the church belonged. However, no other remains have survived. Today the church is surrounded by a small cemetery.
The building is made of irregularly high rows of sandstone blocks from the neighboring rocky area of Hruboskalské Skalní město . The marks of the stonemasons can still be seen on individual blocks. The building consists of three parts: a square west tower 4.35 meters long and 20 meters high, a rectangular nave in the middle and a semicircular apse in the east. In the western part of the ship is the gallery , which is accessible via a staircase in the tower. A sacristy is attached to the north, opposite the main entrance .
The Romanesque building is exceptionally well preserved, but was restored in 1887 by the Bohemian architect Josef Mocker . Among other things, the windows were enlarged and glazed, the roof of the nave replaced and the originally wooden construction of the sacristy replaced with a stone extension.
The interior of the church is equipped with a pseudo-Romanesque altar , created in 1876 by local artists Dominik and Petr Bušek from Sychrov . At the end of the 19th century the coffered ceiling was also built, dividing the roof of the nave into blue fields with gold stars.
Externally, the building is kept simple. An arched frieze closes the walls of the nave, the tower and the apse. In one of the arches on the north wall there is a relief of a female face. According to a local legend, it is about a Turkish woman whom the church's founder, a crusader, brought to the town from the Orient and married. Popular tradition probably tried to explain the rare ancient structure of the church with this exotic interpretation, but there is no reliable clue as to who the church founder was.
Web links
- Overview of the Church (Czech) ( Memento from February 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 33.6 ″ N , 14 ° 58 ′ 37.6 ″ E