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Religious monuments

Church of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary

Religious monuments Coin no. 413

An aluminic three-nave church with a transverse nave founded at the same time as the town in 1265 by Přemysl Otakar II. Around 1300 the presbytery and the eastern wall of the transept were completed, the northern side nave is from the 20s of the 14th century. The three-nave and transept were completed using brick material in the years 1360-70. After several fires, the church was partially rebuilt in the 2nd half of the 17th century. The elongated pentagonal presbytery is vaulted with three bays and hoods of the end of the flat cross vault, the transverse nave is vaulted with three fields of cross ribbed vaulting, a three-nave with a rapid sequence of vault fields, divided by six pairs of prismatic pillars, vaulted with a cross vault. Fragments of medieval frescoes in the interior. The church is part of the Dominican monastery with the “White Tower” – the monastery bell tower, originally Gothic from the 2nd half of the 15th century, in its present Baroque form from 1772.