Kostel svatého Mikuláše (Mikulov) Church

The Church of Saint Nicholas in Mikulov on the Teplicko is a Roman Catholic parish church. It is a simple late Baroque building from seventeen seventy on the northern side of the Tržní náměstí. Since June sixth, two thousand two, it has been protected as a cultural monument.

Mikulov apparently emerged in the fourteenth century as a settlement of miners who came from Saxony. Until fifteen ninety five, the municipality was called Neuschellenberg in German, meaning New Schellenberg, named after Schellenberg in Saxony. In fifteen ninety seven, Mikulov received from Rudolf the Second the right of a free mining town, the right to hold weekly and annual markets, and a municipal coat of arms. From seventeen forty onwards, however, mining gradually declined. In eighteen seventy, only two workers were employed there in silver mining.

It is not known exactly when the original church was built. It is assumed to be the sixteenth century, when the settlement was transforming into a small town. During the Thirty Years' War, the church apparently suffered damage and in seventeen oh nine it was repaired. The present form dates from seventeen seventy and most likely incorporated parts of the older church's structures. Another repair took place in eighteen oh nine. After nineteen eighteen, a memorial was added to the southern wall of the nave commemorating citizens of Mikulov, known in German as Niklasbergen, who fell or disappeared in the First World War. Since nineteen forty five, when the original German speaking population was evacuated, the church has gradually deteriorated.

The building has one rectangular nave and a narrower presbytery closed off with three sides. On its southern side is the sacristy. To the west stands a prismatic tower covered with a helmet roof. The facades are decorated with pilaster frames and the windows are semicircular, while those in the tower are segmental. The presbytery is vaulted with a barrel vault with lunettes. The nave has a flat ceiling with Rococo painting and a two storey gallery.

The most valuable part of the furnishings are late Gothic statues of Saint Peter and Saint Paul from around fifteen twenty. However, they were later carelessly repainted. The rest of the church's furnishings are not of great artistic value.

In the tower hangs the bell Charles from nineteen nineteen by Richard Herold. Older bells were requisitioned during the First World War. These were two bells by Gabriel Hilger from sixteen thirty and one by Francis Pitschmann from eighteen oh six. In the tower there is also an interesting bell metal cymbal, which is sounded by a clock mechanism. It has a diameter of thirty centimetres and around its neck is a band of standing acanthus. It is quite dented, allegedly because it was stored somewhere in an attic for a long time.

In the village there is also a cemetery enclosed by a wall covered with shingles. By the wall stands a stone chapel from the beginning of the nineteenth century with an octagonal bell cote above the gable. It is not artistically very significant, but it is interesting in its placement in the landscape. In the park on the square is a statue of Saint Joseph from the first half of the nineteenth century.