Kaple Panny Marie se sochou Boha Otce Chapel

The chapel of Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is one of the modest but architecturally interesting Baroque buildings from the second half of the 18th century. Today located in Olomouci in the local part of Povel, where it still serves as a place of prayer and spiritual renewal. Its fate is an example of how an agricultural settlement can turn into part of a big city, with an ancient chapel remaining a witness to the past.

The chapel was built in 1773 at the request of the local inhabitants of the village Povel, which was administered by the parish of St. Morice in Olomouci. The plans of the construction were prepared by the masonry master Franz Morbitzer. And Jacob Pechtl built the lower tower. In the 18th and 19th centuries the chapel stood in the middle of the village and the mass was served only several times a year. In 1859, they installed an organ, which was eliminated 100 years later. Since 1860 the chapel became part of the parish Nové Sady.

The early 20th century brought new repairs to the chapel. The biggest reconstruction took place in 1911, funded by local parishioners. That's when they covered the floor with patio tiles, built a new crust and replaced the main altar. In 1924 and 1925 they fixed the roof and put in the electric lighting. Other maintenance work followed in 1949 and 1965.

The difficult time for the chapel came in the early 1960s. The Communist authorities issued a ban on services and discussed taking it to a warehouse or cinema; proposals for demolition were also passed. The landlords helped save her. In 1964, the chapel was listed as protected cultural monuments, allowing it to survive the darkest period. In the meantime, Osada Povel became part of Olomouce in 1919 and was surrounded by the construction of panel houses during the second half of the 20th century, which creates a special contrast to this historic construction.

Architecturally, it is a one-bedroom building with a half-circle edge and a four-sided low sacristy. The facade is decorated with lizenas and a shield with decorative ligaments on the sides is turned off over the main portal with a segmental wedge. On the roof sits a sandtuscan with a lantern and a poppy. In the interior, the ship of the square floor plan is encapsulated with a necke vault with four lunettes; The presbytery has a rounded plan with a condom. In the western part of the chapel leads a circular iron staircase to the circle. The tower still contains a bell from 1942 without a heart, which replaced the original bell from 1781, which the German military forces confiscated during World War II.

Around the chapel are scattered Baroque sculptures from different parts of Olomouce. The statue of St. Judy Tadeas from 1728 by Franz Hoffmann, which originally belonged to the monastery Hradisko, stands in front of the front of the front. In the direction of the sacristy are located damaged statues of St. Sebastian from 1720 and St. John Nepomuk from 1728. The oldest sculpture, however, is standing at the back of the sacristy - God the Father thrilling in the clouds of 1751, placed on a prism plinth. In the presbytery he also preserved the painting of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary by Josef Pilz from 1773.

In the 1990s, the chapel was repaired and returned to the church. The general repair of the interior took place from 2019 to 2020, and was sanctified by the Assistant Olomouc Bishop Antonín Basser in December 2020. Since 2022, the surroundings of the chapel have been gradually adjusted by planting trees in the form of Love and Friendship.