A simple wooden cross now stands where a church once stood, by a solitary linden tree. The original wooden church was destroyed in 1639 and replaced by an early Baroque structure built between 1679 and 1683. This high-quality Baroque building featured a rectangular nave, a recessed rectangular presbytery with a semicircular apse, and sacristies with oratories on either side of the choir. A prominent prismatic tower with a mansard roof, completed in 1805, dominated the west facade. Pilasters a.. Read more »rticulated the church's exterior, and low semicircular windows punctuated the walls. A barrel vault with lunettes covered the nave, while a groin vault with a conch in the apse covered the presbytery. A wooden gallery supported by slender cast-iron columns was built into the western part of the nave. The furnishings, mostly from the 19th century, were ruined by the time of the church's demolition. A cemetery surrounded the church, enclosed by a stone wall with a Baroque gate dating from 1672. Despite protests from preservationists who hoped to save at least the tower and convert it into an observation point, the church was ceremoniously demolished with explosives on April 28, 1975, in the presence of communist officials. A monument of equal height commemorating the arrival of the Red Army in 1945 was planned for the site, with an approved budget of 4.5 million Czechoslovak crowns, but the project was halted by the government.
