Markvartice, St. Martin's Church, general view of the nave to the west, 1965

The church has undergone reconstruction, receiving a new copper roof, tower, and flèche. The nave's original roof, truss, and vault collapsed in 1984. An annex on the left side of the nave has been largely demolished. The façade has been repaired with new windows and the tower has new shutters. Temporary doors are closed. Inside, there is new, unpainted plaster and scaffolding. Drainage is being installed around the church. The surrounding cemetery has been cleared, nearly half of the perimete.. Read more »r wall repaired, and Stations of the Cross chapels along the wall are being restored. The stairway and main gate leading to the church have also been repaired. After 1948, the church was deliberately neglected. By the mid-1960s, the damaged roof began leaking, causing parts of the Baroque stucco ceiling to detach in 1965. The entire vault subsequently collapsed. Part of the roof collapsed in 1974, and the entire roof structure fell into the nave in 1984. Locals scavenged the fallen timbers for firewood, and the ruins were declared off-limits. The last remaining vault above the presbytery eventually collapsed, along with the triumphal arch and Thun coat of arms. Earlier, valuable furnishings were removed under orders from the communist authorities and transported to Slovakia. This included a large altarpiece depicting Saint Martin, a medallion painting of the Virgin Mary above it, two side Baroque altars, a statue of Saint John of Nepomuk, a painting of Christ's relatives, and 24 paintings of saints and scenes from their lives which had adorned the two-story gallery. Four statues of the evangelists were saved and are now in the church in Růžová. The organ was also taken to Slovakia, its ornate Baroque case reportedly ending up in a sawmill. A Gothic wooden crucifix and a double-sided sculpture of the Virgin Mary of the Rosary also vanished.