kostel Božského srdce Páně (Olomučany) Church

The Church of the Divine Heart of Jesus in Olomučany is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. As a subsidiary church, it belongs to the parish of Blansko.

The first written mention of the village dates from the year 1353. However, finds of ironworks furnaces from the time of the Great Moravian Empire show that people lived here much earlier. Olomučany had always belonged to the Blansko parish, and the journey to the parish church was difficult for many inhabitants. There was already discussion about building their own church around the year 1850. Prince John of Liechtenstein offered help, as he owned the surrounding forests, a foundry, and mines. Count Hugo Salm was also willing to help. Yet construction did not take place, and the prince ultimately built the Church of Saint Barbara in Adamov between the years 1855 and 1857.

The idea was later taken up by a local native, Monsignor Francis Kyzlink. After his ordination as a priest, he studied further in Jerusalem and then worked as a court chaplain in Vienna. In Olomučany, he wanted to build both a church and a poorhouse. On his initiative, the Church Committee was established in the year 1898, and it immediately organized a collection. However, Kyzlink's untimely death in the year 1903 thwarted the plans.

In the year 1912, the Church Brotherhood was founded. Their work was interrupted in the year 1914 by the world war, and the collected money went toward a war loan. The Brotherhood's activities resumed in the year 1928, mainly thanks to the efforts of the Blansko chaplain Ernest Králík. He rented two rooms in a former factory and set up a chapel there with a wooden altar and a picture of Saint Martin. The chapel was consecrated on August nineteenth, nineteen twenty-eight.

The chapel eventually became too small, so the Brotherhood purchased a plot of land covering two thousand square meters. The year 1937 added urgency, when the chapel fell into disrepair. The first design for the church was rejected because several institutions did not consider it suitable. The building ultimately came about according to a design by the Brno architect Stanley Kučera. The foundation stone was blessed on April thirtieth, nineteen thirty-nine by Ernest Králík, by then already a pastor in Ostrov u Macochy. He gathered dozens of volunteers around him, who helped with work and collections throughout the surrounding area. Financially and organizationally, Member of Parliament Joseph Šamalík also contributed. Despite the approaching war, the church grew under the leadership of the local builder Veselý. Craftsmen from Olomučany, Blansko, Ostrov, and Sloup participated in its construction.

On June twenty-third, nineteen forty, two steel bells were blessed and hung at the church, having already been cast in the year nineteen eighteen.