Kostel svatého Martina z Tours, Medieval religious structure in Vnitřní Město, Czech Republic.
Church of Saint Martin is a place of worship in Vnitřní Město that combines stone and brick construction with Baroque-style elements and features carved reliefs, paintings, and ornamented interior spaces. The building shapes the appearance of the inner city center with its form and decorations.
Founded in the mid-13th century by Abbot Martin of the Třebíč monastery, the church became a parish church in the 14th century. Vilém z Pernštejna had it rebuilt in 1502 after the Hussite wars, and from 1707 Baroque works enlarged the chapels of St Anne and St Joseph and joined the church to the town tower.
The church is dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, and the square around it, Martinské náměstí, takes its name from him and from Abbot Martin II of the Třebíč monastery. The father of composer František Václav Míča played the organ here; a new instrument by Jan Komorník of Rouchovany was bought in 1796.
The church stands on Martinské náměstí in the Vnitřní Město, with its 75-metre city tower rising beside the nave; the tower was joined to the church in 1715. The sacristy roof was rebuilt in 1905 as a flat terrace with a balustrade and vases, and the crypt beneath the floor was opened by archaeologists in July 1991.
The 75-metre city tower carries a black clock face with white Roman numerals beneath a green onion dome and slender spire. During the 1991 renovation, workers broke through a vault and lowered archaeologists into a crypt, which proved empty; bones and fragments of old coffins were found only in the ossuary under the main altar.
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