Mary of Victory (Bílá Hora)

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Pilgrimage Church of Mary of Victory

The Church of Our Lady of Victory ( Kostel Panny Marie Vítězné in Czech ) on White Mountain is a place of pilgrimage near the battlefield of 1620. It is located north of the Karlovarská road and southeast of the actual White Mountain, in the cadastral parish Řepy . The church is one of the most important monuments in this part of the city and has been a Czech cultural monument since May 3, 1958.

history

From 1622 to 1624 a chapel was built on this site, initially dedicated to St. Wenceslas was consecrated, later to the Virgin Mary. This was used to store the bones of the fallen. The chapel became a place of pilgrimage, which was entrusted to the Servite Order, who began to build a monastery in 1628, but it was not completed. At the initiative of a secular Prague brotherhood, a renovation took place at the beginning of the 18th century, during which a new chapel was consecrated in 1704.

From 1708 to 1730, the builder and painter Christian Luna (Kristián Luna) converted the Lady Chapel into a spacious pilgrimage church. In 1786, Emperor Joseph II had the monastery and the pilgrimage site closed by decree and the area auctioned off. In 1811 Josef Čapek bought the building that needed renovation. After his death in 1877 he bequeathed the property to the Benedictines. In 2007 a new Benedictine monastery was founded here.

Furnishing

inner space

In the center of the high altar is a copy of the image of Mary of Victory , with which Dominicus a Jesu Maria cheered on the Catholic allies at the Battle of White Mountain . According to tradition, the miraculous image of Maria Hilf , which was erected on the White Mountain after the victory of the imperial army on November 8, 1620, came into the possession of the canon Georg Adam Englert in Prague, who in turn venerated it in the pilgrimage church of St. Anna in Sedlec in 1769 .

The dome fresco in the presbytery by Cosmas Damian Asam from 1728 shows the triumph of the Catholic faith in Bohemia. The dome in the Chapel of St. Hilarius painted Johann Adam Schöpf . It shows the battle on White Mountain. Likewise in the chapel of St. Felician, which Wenzel Lorenz Reiner painted .

Web links

Commons : Kostel Panny Marie Vítězné (Bílá Hora)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 34.3 ″  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 19 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poutní areál s kostelem Panny Marie Vítězné ÚSKP 44491 / 1-1693 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
  2. ↑ The pilgrimage church of Maria vom Siege on the White Mountain. In: radio.cz. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ history. In: benediktinky.cz. Retrieved April 13, 2020 (Czech).
  4. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer : The Kingdom of Bohemia; Represented statistically and topographically. Volume 15. Elbogner Kreis . Verlag Friedrich Ehrlich, 1847, p. 105 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ White Mountain near Prague. In: hdbg.de. Bavaria and Bohemia - House of Bavarian History, accessed on March 28, 2020 .