St. John the Baptist on the Bleach

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St. John the Baptist on the Bleach on the Lesser Town of Prague

The Church of St. John the Baptist on the Bleach (Czech Kostel svatého Jana Křtitele Na prádle ) is located on the Lesser Town in Prague . It is one of the oldest churches in the district.

The Church of St. John the Baptist was first mentioned around 1142 as the parish church of the Újezd ​​settlement. In place of the Romanesque building, an early Gothic church was built around 1240 , which was given a new nave around 1350. With the expansion of the city, the church was included in the Lesser Town in 1360. Inside the church still shows the remains of Gothic wall paintings from the second half of the 14th century. It underwent further renovations in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the Renaissance choir dates from 1641 to 1644. In 1662, the Lesser Town Hospital was established here. The St. John Nepomuk statue, created by Michael Brokoff and originally located on Karlsplatz , has been in front of the church since 1715 . The church and hospital were closed in 1774. In the meantime, the building served as a laundry and only from 1935 as a place of worship again. Since then it has been used by the Czechoslovak Hussite Church .

In the church is Viktorin Kornel ze Všehrd buried.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radomíra Sedládková. Architecture guide Prague . Ostfildern 1997. p. 34
  2. ^ Entry in the catalog of the National Monument Office

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 55 ″  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 23 ″  E