Kostel Nejsvětější Trojice (Mešno) Church

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a one-ship building in the puristic neo-gothic style, which was established in the early twentieth century. Since 2004, the church has been protected as a cultural monument - both as a characteristic example of the neo-gothic architecture of its time, and as evidence of the activity of the important architect Arnošt Živný in the region on the border of Pilsen districts.

Mešno had a long history of church reaching into the 14th century. The oldest preserved mention of the parish church dates back to 1352, when Bohuslav of Švamberg exercised patronage law. In the following centuries the church belonged to various local flags. During the Hussite wars, the parish was orphaned without its own priest. Since 1550, Meshna has fallen to the Miroshov estate administered by the knight of Gryspek. After the post-white mountain confiscation of 1623, Miroshov's goods were sold to Adam Wroclaw of Mitrovice and the parish was linked to the burnt-up.

In the second half of the eighteenth century, the original Gothic church was fundamentally rebuilt. The Baroque reconstruction was completed in 1737 or 1738, the new rectory was built in 1710. The church became the center of the newly set parish including Mešno, Kakejcov, Kornatice, Nevid, Děkosice and part of Lipnice. In 1749 the church with the rectory went into the property of the St. Matthew's capital. In 1898 the Baroque building burned down and was demolished. The Capitula immediately built a new church.

The foundation stone of the new church was laid on the 15th of September 1901 by the sanctification of Bishop Franz Krásl. The construction was designed by architect Arnošt Živný (1841-1913), known as the director of the completion of the St. Vitus temple. On the ninth of November 1902 the finished church was consecrated by the Archbishop of Prague, Cardinal Lvo Skrubenski. The construction is a single boat with a rectangular plan and a presbytery in the east ended by three sides of the octagonal. The presbytery is sealed with a rib arch, the ship has a cassette wooden ceiling. The square tower on five floors is located on the west facade. The whole building is built from white bricks in a puristic neo-gothic style.

The interior deserves special attention. The church is decorated with three stained windows, which Jan Zacharias Quast painted in 1863. The windows were originally designed for the Imperial Chapel of St. Vitus Cathedral and depict the emperor Charles IV and his wife, Elisabeth Pomeranian. In 1901, windows from the St. Matthew's Cathedral were transferred to a newly built church in Meshen. The clock from Halcknecht has been on the tower since 1902. In 1989, they were inexpertly modified for electric propulsion and replaced in 1999 by new electric clocks from Moulis.

In 2015, the municipality of Mešno acquired the church into its property by transferring from the church property. Today, the church is a unique representation of the purist neo-gothic style of the early twentieth century, linked by the name of one of the most important Czech architects of his time.