Kostel svatého Jakuba Většího (Lahovice) Church

The church of St. Jacob Vetsii is a Roman Catholic filial temple dating back to the second half of the seventeenth century. Its location is isolated from the settlement of the settlement and its character of the former pilgrimage place differs from typical village churches. It is currently in a devastated state and registered as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic; It is also included in the list of endangered monuments.

The construction dates back to 1670 and represents a common baroque solution of this time. During the eighteenth century the temple passed through reconstruction - in 1751 it was first rebuilt. Due to its isolated location, it served as an attractive destination for external visitors, leading to the role of pilgrimage.

The cause of his gradual degradation became a devastating attack in 1956. On the fifth of July of that year seven young men - masons working on the construction of cows in nearby All Men - entered the window. With the axe, they chopped up all the baroque mobiliaries in the interior. The perpetrators were convicted and were obliged to pay back the debt for 16 years; However, only a broken window has been repaired. After this incident, the church was never served mass and the temple gradually fell.

In the 1980s, Ivan Votava from Chomutov attempted corrective action, which for the period from 1980 to 1982 rented a church with the intention of starting repairs and installing an organ in it. But these plans failed at the constant vandalism and theft that forced him to give up his fight. At the end of the 1980s, the church was officially designed for demolition because it was intended to grow up in its place with water. This unfortunate fate was saved by November 1989 and subsequent social changes.

In recent years, efforts have been made to stabilise the construction at least partially. Since 2011, a homeless Pavel has been living here in the nearby chapel. In 2014 there was a clean-up of the raid around the church and with the support of the members of the Mediterranean association the roof of the chapel was repaired. Some reconstruction work was started when the fallen part of the roof, including the sandbox, was removed, thus at least partly slowing down further degradation of the building.

Architecturally, it's a simple one-ship rectangular plan. The presbytery is closed and supplemented by a rectangular side sacristy. The facade is a членeno pilaster and portal, closed with a shield with nothing. The outside walls are newly членené with lizene frames. The windows are closed with a compressed arc. The ship has a flat ceiling, while the presbytery is glazed with valenas on the pilasters and also the sacristy has a flat ceiling. The crust rests on two pillars. Next to the church stands a small chapel - a simple baroque building with a shield with nothing.

The original rich Baroque facility existed only fragmentally at the end of the 1980s. The construction persists in its degraded state, remaining a testament to the fate of many Czech ecclesiastical monuments of later times.