Chapel of Saint Anne, Baroque chapel in Hostěnice, Czech Republic

The Chapel of Saint Anne stands freely in the forest on Hádek hill north of Hostěnice. It is a masonry building on an octagonal plan with longer and shorter walls; the narrower walls carry pilasters with moulded capitals, and four deep conch-vaulted niches hold statues of saints. An eight-sided tent roof with a cross tops the structure.

The Baroque chapel was built in 1748 on Hádek hill in the forest north of Hostěnice. According to local legend, it was made from bricks left over from a transshipment site for the pilgrimage church of the Name of the Virgin Mary in Křtiny. It was restored in 1947, when sculptor Matěj Kocourek of Pozořice added statues of saints, and again in 2013 by its owner, Lesy České republiky, a restoration that won first place in the South Moravian Region's competition for the best-repaired cultural monument in the small structures category.

The chapel's name comes from a legend: bricks left over from the pilgrim church of the Name of the Virgin Mary in Křtiny were reused here, and the chapel was dedicated to Saint Anne. According to local tradition, the plague epidemic afflicting the village began to recede on Saint Anne's Day, 26 July.

The building sits in a quiet village and is best explored on foot when visiting the surrounding area. The location is small and easy to spot when walking through the village.

The chapel stands in the forest on Hádek hill north of Hostěnice, not in the village itself. A local legend says it was built from bricks left over at a transshipment point where bricks from the Tvarožná brickyard were reloaded for the pilgrimage church of the Name of the Virgin Mary in Křtiny. It is said that on Saint Anne's Day, 26 July, a plague epidemic afflicting the village began to recede.