Church of Saint Wenceslaus, Medieval chapel in Brůdek, Czech Republic.
The Church of Saint Wenceslaus in Brůdek is a Baroque chapel built in 1669–1671, standing about 200 metres southwest of the village on the field path to Studánky. It has a rectangular nave 8 by 7.8 metres, walls 80 cm thick, a flat-ceilinged nave with a wooden gallery on two wooden columns, and a polygonal presbytery under a cross vault with lunettes. A saddle roof carries a small lantern turret with an onion dome.
The chapel was built between 1669 and 1671, on the site of a village founded in the first half of the 17th century. Count Friedrich von Stadion funded repairs in 1878 and 1890. In the 19th century František Palacký linked it, without evidence, to a church said to have been founded by Bretislaus I in 1040 after the Battle of Brůdek.
The chapel is a filial church of the Mrákov parish and is dedicated to Saint Wenceslaus, the patron linked by tradition to the site. František Palacký, without any documentary basis, connected it with a church said to have been founded by Bretislaus I in 1040 after the victory at the Battle of Brůdek. The only surviving original furnishing is an early Baroque pulpit dated 1686.
The chapel stands about 200 metres south-west of Brůdek, on the field path toward Studánky, not in the village centre. The south portal is the main entrance. The building is a protected cultural monument, so visits are limited to the exterior.
The chapel stands about 200 metres south-west of Brůdek on the field path to Studánky, not in the village centre. Its saddle roof carries a small ridge turret with a lantern and an onion dome, and the entrance portal is on the south side. The early Baroque pulpit from 1686 is the only piece of the original furnishings that survives.
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