Kostel svatého Petra v okovech (Kostelní Hlavno) Church

Welcome to the church main. You are standing in front of the church of St. Peter in chains, which is the historical and spiritual heart of the entire village. Look around you and see the atmosphere of this quiet place that has dominated this building for centuries. When you look up, an object built from a quarry stone that carries traces of several building stages of our past stands before you.

Let's look deeper into history to understand how this shrine was created. The first written mention of the original construction, which stood here earlier, leads us to the far year of the 133rd century. That's when the church first appears in historical springs and serves the local community. The original medieval sacral structure stood here for decades, but time and tooth of time took their toll. After a year of a thousand and eight centuries, clouds in the literal sense of the word have withdrawn over the church vaults. The building began to threaten to collapse, and it was therefore necessary to take a radical step. The old church was torn down and a whole new building grew up in its place. Its construction took place quite quickly and the 8th of November in the year one thousand and eighth of the seventh was ceremonially consecrated.

Now pay attention to the architecture itself and the details you have right in front of you. The church of St. Peter in chains in a unique way combines the older Gothic foundations and a new form from the nineteenth century. Although most of the original construction was torn down, history was not completely erased. When you look carefully at the lower part of the tower, you see the oldest, originally gothic element that miraculously survived all the stormy changes. On the ground floor of this tower there is a rare rolled vault, which remembers the conquest of medieval builders. The whole rest of the building, built from quarry stone, bears a newer face, which replaced the flimsy predecessor.

While written sources have left clear data on construction and ordination, the names of architects behind this reconstruction have unfortunately disappeared in history. Likewise, history has not preserved the specific names of the important personalities associated with this place, but this does not take away the charm and atmosphere of this filial church. On the contrary, instead of great historical dramas, this church lives the stories of ordinary people who have come here for generations to seek comfort and peace.

An interesting milestone in the modern history of this place is also the end of the year two thousand and five. On December 31, that year, a long era ended, during which this building performed as a parish church. Since then it has served as a Roman Catholic filial church, which still proudly stands in its place in the middle of the village and resembles the rich past of the Church Head.

We hope you enjoyed the tour of this interesting place. Take a moment of peace for quiet contemplation, go around the building around and enjoy the genius loci that breathes from every stone on the beach. Thank you for listening to our audio guide, and we wish you a beautiful rest of the day while further exploring the surroundings. Goodbye.