kaple svatého Václava (Keblice) Chapel

The Chapel of St. Wenceslas in Keblice is a pseudogotic one-ship rectangular building with a triangular shield and a flat ceiling. Her more than three-hundred-year presence in the landscape speaks of the dedication of local people to her spiritual life.

The construction was established on the basis of the decree of the Litoměřický bishop Jaroslav Šternberk of 26 June 1694. According to the 1768 minutes, the chapel was financed exclusively from the pocketful collections of Keblic residents, without their own funds or real estate. The individual settlements contributed to its maintenance - the Keblický farmhouse Fričský no. 7, for example, paid fifteen grosches in 1768.

In the Baroque form in which it was originally built, the chapel had a banked turret and a broken shield in which the statue of Saint Wenceslas was located. The facade was protected by a garden surrounded by walls. The interior decorated the ceiling with baroque frames on which were scenes from the life of St. Wenceslas. The dominant is the Rococo altar painting signed by Georgia Mathias Walter from 1755, depicting St. Wenceslas on a horse and below him kneeling Zlický Duke Radslav, who pleads for mercy after the lost battle at Žitoměř. The chapel was also equipped with pulpit and rococo benches.

At the end of the 19th century, the construction began to threaten to collapse. The municipal committee decided in 1868 to repair it. The fundamental transformation, however, brought about an adaptation from 1898, led by Keblický masonry master Josef Mareš. The area of the chapel was enlarged by building the original garden. Father Václav Radiger, married to Hofman of Keblice, owner of Emanuel Karsch and the municipality Keblice themselves contributed to the funding. The chapel was then obliged to maintain its own cargo. The outer cross was placed on 11 October 1898 and on 18 December 1898 the chapel was ceremonially consecrated. In 1906 she was enriched by the cross road, which was donated by Kablic midwife Marie Hofman.

In January 2011, the municipal council decided to complete the reconstruction due to the emergency state of the roof and the disruption of the roof structure by the worm. The work was carried out in 2012- 2013 with the support of the Rural Development Programme. During the reconstruction, a box with period coins, manuscripts, prints and personal letter from Master Stahra, the terezín teller, was removed from the turret. These items were supplemented by a message from 2013 and returned to their post. After the repair of the chapel, the general vicar of the lithomeric dioceses Stanislav was reblessed during the service on the eve of the feast of St. Wenceslas on 27 September 2013.

The chapel today, after last year's reconstruction, continues to be the place of the spiritual life of the community, just as it has been for more than three centuries since its inception.