Kaple svatého Maxmiliána, Chapel in Czechia

The Chapel of Saint Maximilian is a Neo-Gothic structure built in 1849 as a family mausoleum in the village. The building features decorative stonework, colored glass windows with religious motifs, and a lower level that served as a crypt with an altar and burial spaces.

Maxmilián Berger had the chapel built in 1849 as a Neo-Gothic family tomb, and it was consecrated to Saint Maximilian after him. In 1967 a gale felled trees that damaged the already decaying building. Restoration began in the 1980s and ran for decades; the left wing's access staircase was finished only in 2010, paid for by public collection, the Central Bohemian Region, the Svatojánská společnost and the Foundation of Czech Monuments.

The chapel owes its dedication to Maximilian Berger, who commissioned it; his wife, Countess Walburga von Lackner, founded the village's first school and was the first person placed in the crypt. The adjoining cemetery's first burial outside the family was the Catholic priest František Havlíček Včelakovský, who died in 1877. A memorial plaque on the chapel honours soldiers killed in the First World War, and the cemetery also holds a monument to the end of the Second World War.

The chapel stands on the same plot as the village cemetery, where the first burial outside the Berger family was the Catholic priest František Havlíček Včelakovský, who died in 1877. A memorial plaque on the chapel commemorates soldiers killed in the First World War, and a monument in the cemetery marks the end of the Second World War. The site has drawn film crews, including the series První republika and Svatby v Benátkách.

The chapel was designed by architect Bernard Grueber, a professor at Prague's German Polytechnic who created other important buildings in the city. Local stonemason Jedlicka executed the decorative stonework that gives the building its distinctive character.