kostel svatého Filipa a Jakuba (Pavlice) Church

The church of St. Philip and James is located in the heart of the village Pavlice and serves as a parish church of the Roman Catholic parish Pavlice. The whole building is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

The church grew up gradually from the original band, which was to serve as a pilgrimage place when it was founded. His история dates back to 1649, when General Louis Raduit de Souches built a chapel with an adjacent hospice designed for six poor women and men. However, the construction lasted only two decades - it was demolished in 1670 and a new chapel soon grew in the same place, where services were already held. On 12 August 1677 it was ordained by Jan Josef Count Breunner. At the same time, in 1675, God's grave was set up at the new altar, which was a common part of Catholic churches at that time.

Another religious building developed around the band. There was a calvary that the community canceled in 1764. Forty years later, in 1806, the chapel of Christ's suffering was abolished. The oldest bell in the church dates back to 1693.

During the 18th and 19th centuries the church gradually developed. In 1785, a locale - a separate parish - was established in Pavlice and a neighbouring Vranovská Ves was added to it. In 1835 more construction activity broke out: a farm building was built, a nearby workhouse with hospice was torn down, and from the funds of Joseph Count Ugarte, the church was significantly expanded. In 1899 a sacristy was added, a year later a new organ.

The twentieth century brought many modernization and sad events. In 1926, a chapel was built near the church with a monument to the victims of the First World War; later she got enlargement - marble plate with names of victims of World War II. In 1937 new bells were taken, in November of the same year the church was fenced by a wall. The fate of the bells, however, alternated wars: in 1942 they were recited, new ones returned only in 1949.

The church received several extensive reconstruction. In 1928 he completed a total renewal; and the adjacent rectory, which was extended by one floor. Another major renovation followed in 1996 with new organs. At the end of 2008 the roof and the dome were repaired, a new cross was consecrated in the interior and historical documents on Pavlice were stored in the dome. In May 2010 came another renewal: the windows were replaced, the church was painted, interior lighting was reconstructed and pictures removed from the walls.

It is an architectural construction with an original chapel integrated into its front. The church had five altars dedicated to St. Philip and James, the Divine Heart of the Lord, the purest heart of the Virgin Mary, Saint Donat and Saint Cyril and Methodius, although at a later time two of them were abolished.