Churchyard Cemetery of Church of St. John of Nepomuk - Zdar nad Sazavou, Czech Republic
Posted by: puczmeloun
N 49° 34.807 E 015° 56.516
33U E 568090 N 5492374
Churchyard Cemetery of Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk at Zelena hora
Waymark Code: WMKF4X
Location: Kraj Vysočina, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/04/2014
Views: 59
At the beginning of the 18th century an architectural style unparalleled in the rest of Europe developed in Bohemia. Known as Baroque Gothic because it involved the transposition of Gothic elements into Baroque form it was the style in which the Church of St. John of Nepomuk at Zelena hora (Green Hill) was built in the years 1719 to 1722 in Zdar nad Sazavou.
Pilgrimage Church at Zelena hora is a unique work of art and indisputably the most original and individual building designed by the brilliant Bohemian architect of Italian ancestry Jan Blazej Santini-Aichl in the Baroque Gothic style. It is a building that escaped the conventional architectural rules and nostrums of the time, and it impresses even the modern eye as quite exceptional, with its complex interconnecting spatial forms, the dynamism of tis volumes, and the upward lift that defies the weight of the masonry.
The foundation of the church was linked to the preparations for the beatification and canonisation of John of Nepomuk after the opening of his tomb in St. Vitus´s Cathedral in Prague and the finding of his allegedly miraculously intact tongue. Construction started in 1719 on the orders of the Abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Zdar, Vaclav Vejmluva, and the church was consecrated a mere two years later.
Source: (
visit link)