kostel svatého Dionýsia Church

The Chomutický Church is dedicated to Saint Dionysius, or in Czech, Saint Diviš. It is the only church in the Czech Republic with this dedication. It stands on the village square and it took its present form in the year 1782, during the reign of Emperor Joseph II.

However, its history begins much earlier. In the middle of the 14th century, Přibyslav of Radče founded a wooden church in Chomutice. It stood where the present rectory is located and was surrounded by a cemetery that was used until the year 1900. According to tradition, the founder was buried directly in the church under a marble slab. In the year 1393, Přech of Radče was the parish priest. Together with his brother Václav and with Albrecht of Radče, he donated to the church a field, a courtyard, and the revenue from one village. The church also received bells and a stone baptismal font. These have survived to the present day, though only one of the bells remains. The sandstone baptismal font from the 14th century has a ten-sided rim with two shields. A reminder of the family is also a carved stone with an inscription, according to which the work was commissioned by Václav of Radče, a canon of Prague.

The new church built in the year 1782 is a late Baroque single-aisle central structure. It has a square nave with rounded corners, a rectangular presbytery, a pyramidal tower on the western façade, and a square sacristy behind the presbytery. The façade with a triangular gable is in the classical style. The nave is covered by a flat wooden cupola, the presbytery by a barrel vault.

The most precious feature is the painted ceiling with a scene of the Bohemian Heaven, with frescoes of all the saints and the crucifixion of Christ. According to experts, the paintings are the work of the painter Kramolín. They were restored in 1864 and again in the year 1937. At that time the restoration cost 18 thousand crowns and the money was raised from collections, both financial and in kind. During the work, 1,274 eggs and 78 liters of milk were used. A great patron was the surgeon and university professor Jan Levit, a native of Hořice.

The painting on the main altar was painted in the year 1831 by Jan Sucharda the Younger. The side altars bear paintings of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Anton Seifert of Vrchlabí and Saint Francis Xavier again by Sucharda. The altar of Saint John of Nepomuk comes from the Carthusian monastery in Valdice. The organ from the year 1811 was built by the Prague organ builder Josef Hubička. At the beginning of the 20th century, an avenue of linden and sycamore trees was planted around the church.