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The Church of St Václav (Wenceslas) in Trutnov – the Upper Old Town

The Church of St Václav (Wenceslas) in the Upper Old Town was first mentioned in chronicle in 1313.

The religious reformation period is commemorated on the western wall of the church tower, built in the Renaissance style in the year 1581, by three stone heads, one of which allegedly belongs to Martin Luther. The fragment of red square ornaments on the south-western corner of the church also dates back to the Renaissance period. A 1,100kg bell, the largest one in the neighbourhood, has been hanging in the tower since 1609. The church is made up of a slightly rectangular nave with a flat ceiling, closed by a right-angled, rectangular presbytery. The sacristy with an oratory located upstairs adjoins the northern side of the presbytery. The interior of the church is dominated by a Baroque altarpiece with a picture of the patron saint of the church St Wenceslas created by the painter Ignác Russ in mid-18th century. The most valuable monument in the church is a wooden polychromatic epitaph – the tombstone on the family tomb of the royal forester Kašpar Nuss, who died in 1606.

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Foto: Miloš Šálek