Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary / Kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie - Vranov nad Dyjí (South Moravia) - Baroque Architecture on Waymarking.com

Baroque Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie), in the core Romanesque and Gothic structure from 13th century, is a parish church of Roman Catholic parish in a small South-Moravian historic town Vranov nad Dyjí.

The parish Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is the largest and most artistically and historically significant church monument in the Vranov nad Dyjí area. It was built as a late Romanesque as early as the first half of the 13th century, vaulted in the Gothic style and extended by today's sacristy. After the burning and plundering of Vranov by the Swedes in 1645, it was gradually rebuilt in the Baroque style. The rebuilding, which started in 1685, was financed by the owners of Vranov demesne, the Counts of Althann and continued throughout the whole 18th century. Church has rich and interesting interior - inside you can see e.g.: Romanesque-Gothic baptistery, Baroque organ, statues of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Peter, rococo altar from the second third of the 18th century with a painting of St. Jan Nepomucký from F.A. Maulbertsch or two Baroque paintings from the 1st third of the 18th century depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary.

Chapel of St. Andrew (Kaple Sv. Ondreje), which consists of a rotunda with an apse vaulted with a dome, is a late Romanesque building from the first half of the 13th century. In the basement of the building, into which the entrance is now walled up and covered, there is an authentic ossuary filled with skulls in several layers. The cemetery was around the chapel in the past, in which burials were stopped at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Source: excerpted and translated from Wikipedia and National Heritage Institute portal.