A simple wooden cross now stands where a church once stood by a lone linden tree. The original wooden church was destroyed in 1639, and a new early Baroque one built between 1679 and 1683. This high-quality Baroque structure featured a rectangular nave and a recessed rectangular presbytery with a semicircular apse. Sacristies with oratories above were added to both sides of the choir. A massive, projecting prismatic tower with a mansard roof, completed in 1805, dominated the west facade. Pila.. Read more »sters articulated the church's facades, and low semicircular windows pierced the walls. The nave had a barrel vault with lunettes, while the presbytery boasted a groin vault with a conch in the apse. A wooden gallery, supported by slender cast-iron columns, was built into the western part of the nave. The furnishings were mainly from the 19th century; by the time of the demolition, they were already ruined. A cemetery surrounded the church, enclosed by a stone wall with a Baroque gate dating from 1672. On April 28, 1975, the church was ceremoniously demolished by explosives in the presence of communist officials, despite protests from preservationists who tried to save at least the tower to convert it into an observation tower. A monument of equal height commemorating the arrival of the Red Army in 1945 was planned for the site, and a budget of 4.5 million Czechoslovak crowns was approved, but the government halted the project.
