Kostel svatého Jindřicha a svaté Kunhuty na Novém Městě v Praze Church

The church of St. Henry and St. Kunhuta is a parish temple on the New Town of Prague in Jindřiš Street, which the church named. The Gothic building from the 14th century is one of the important sights of the Prague city district.

The church was founded in the first half of the fourteenth century in the creation of New Town itself. It was built by a order of cruisers with a red star who had managed it for years. In February 1351, Archbishop Arnosht of Pardubice ordained it, and the month after that, on the 16th March of that year, he was promoted to the parish church. The temple is determined by the Roman-German king and Emperor Henry II, who lived between 972 and 973 to 1024, and his wife Kunhuta. Since its inception it has become part of the life of the urban area, especially intensely used by the inhabitants during the plague wounds, when it served as part of the largest inner city cemetery in Prague.

During the Hussite it was taken by the Hussites and was used by the priest Prokop from Pilsen. Later, he was taken over by the oppressors and the church preserved from their time, for example, the baptist from 1418. At that time one of the oldest and wealthiest literary fraternity in Czech countries developed here. This brotherhood was cancelled in 1784 by Emperor Josef II, and his property was sold out. In the seventeenth century the church was to return to the cruisers who rejected it in 1646. The order of barnabits, to which they then donated it, did not apply. Emperor Ferdinand III therefore transferred it to the administration of the village of New Town in 1649. In the coming days of the Baroque, several chapels were attached to the temple.

In 1529, the church passed through the Renaissance reconstruction, which created a circle, a hall and a leading stone staircase to the bark. In a later Baroque (1738-1741) the temple was equipped richly: paintings and sculptures were created by considerable Czech artists such as Václav Vavríce Reiner, Karl Šcreta, Jan Jiří Heinsch and Jan Jiří Bendl. In 1745 a cycle of wall paintings emerged from the life of St. Henry in a presbytery, funded by the Lithuanian Brotherhood. The main altar painting dates back to 1698 and Jan Jiří Heinsch is also the author; depicts Saint Henry protecting Prague from the Swedish siege and Saint Kunhutu walking around in hot alleys to prove his innocence when accused of adultery.

A fundamental change came in 1879, when under the leadership of architect Josef Mocker, the church was regotized along with the adjacent bell tower (Henry Tower, built 1472-1476). During this neogotic adjustment, the temple was significantly transformed: the facade was glued up to a bare stone, parts of side altars were demolished, new organs were built and a new entrance to the temple jeweler. New stained glass windows were created. The long-term used cemetery was abolished (the last funerals had not been held since 1787) and changed into a park; the skeleton and Jerusalem Chapel were demolished. The remaining tombstones were glued to the facade.

The chapel of St. Barbara was built in 1672 to thank you for saving us from the Swedish siege. Here was the Brotherhood of Saint Barbara, who took care of funerals and associated ceremonies and ceremonies. In 1964, the church was included in the state list of cultural monuments.