Kostel Všech svatých (Vlčovice) Church

The Church of All Saints in Vlčovice, a local part of Kopřivnice, is originally a late Gothic temple. It is surrounded by a cemetery and the entire area is enclosed by a wall with buttresses. The church is a cultural monument.

A late Gothic chapel of All Saints originally stood on this site, built after fifteen ten. In the late sixteenth century it was expanded. From the original construction, the core remained, that is the perimeter walls of the choir and the original nave. A tower was added and a side chapel, and in the presbytery the vault was reconstructed. In fifteen ninety-seven the church was consecrated by bishop Stanislav Pavlovský.

In the second half of the seventeenth century the nave received a vault. Further modifications came in the second half of the eighteenth century and in the first half of the nineteenth century. At the end of the nineteenth century the church was partially re-gothicized, that is returned to Gothic forms. The roof was opened and repaired in nineteen hundred two and nineteen thirty-six. After twenty eleven restoration work began again. Stained glass windows were restored and due to high humidity a drainage system was installed. The work was completed in twenty seventeen, when the four hundred twentieth anniversary of the consecration was celebrated.

It is a single-nave oriented structure. The polygon-ended presbytery thus faces east and a distinctive tower stands in the western facade. A longitudinal chapel adjoins the southern wall. The presbytery and the northern wall of the nave are supported by twice stepped buttresses with roofs. Pointed windows are finished with a hint of three-lobed tracery. The main entrance is on the northern side. It has the form of a simple pointed arch, whose reveals are formed by a small arch with a groove. The tower and the gallery are entered by a rectangular portal in a polygon-shaped tower-like extension in the northwestern corner.

The presbytery is vaulted with lunettes with comb-like ribs. From the nave it is separated by an inconspicuous triumphal arch of pointed form. The nave and side chapel have barrel vaults with sections. A relatively powerful pointed portal leads into the nave. In its western part is a singers' gallery supported by prismatic columns.

From the furnishings, two paintings by Ignaz Berger from the second half of the nineteenth century deserve mention, the Birth of Christ and All Saints. The church also has a bell dated fifteen sixty-two, decorated with ornaments and an inscribed border.

In twenty sixteen, during repairs to the roof, a tube with coins from seventeen sixty-five was discovered, from the time of Baroque reconstructions, and from nineteen twenty-four. It also contained memorial documents from nineteen hundred two and nineteen hundred thirty-six.