St. Leonhard's Chapel (Karlsbad)
The St. Leonhard's Chapel is located near Karlsbad in the Czech Republic , below the Aberg (Doubská hora), about 500 m northeast of the summit.
The chapel was rebuilt as a pseudo-Gothic red brick building by the British envoy at the Berlin court, Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill († 1884). In the same place there was already a previous building, which his mother had restored in 1838. In this chapel there was a portrait of Bishop Leonhard.
A few meters above this chapel in a south-easterly direction are a few remains of a Romanesque church ruin. This church is mentioned for the first time in a document in 1246 and again in a document from Archbishop Nicholas of Prague on February 13, 1257. It was a branch of Elbogen and the church of the deserted village of Thiergarten ( Obora in Czech ). In the early modern times it fell into ruin. 200 meters west of the chapel, already outside the Karlovy Vary city forest, is the once popular excursion destination for Karlovy Vary spa guests, the former St. Leonhard Restoration , on the access road to Aberg .
According to legend, the inhabitants of the former village of Thiergarten once founded Karlovy Vary.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Topography of historical and art-historical monuments pp. 152–153: Anton Gnirs : Topography of historical and art-historical monuments in the Karlsbad district (Prague 1933). Oldenbourg, 1996, ISBN 978-3-486-56170-8 , p. 153 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 28.6 ″ N , 12 ° 50 ′ 59.6 ″ E