Mírkov, Chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, 1975

The nave of the chapel, built in front of a sandstone cliff with its rear section carved into the rock, was demolished in 1977. The rock-hewn presbytery remains. Built after 1800 on the site of a hermitage as a single-nave pseudo-Romanesque chapel in a scenic location about half a kilometer south of the settlement, the chapel's tower was destroyed in 1975, and the nave followed two years later. The furnishings were destroyed even before the demolition by soldiers working on the nearby road. A.. Read more » large pile of rubble marks the nave's location; only the front left corner remains standing to a height of about 1.2 meters. The chapel is not registered in the land registry; the land belongs to the municipality of Povrly.