Church of Saint Matthew, Catholic church in Hať, Czech Republic

The Church of Saint Matthew is a single-nave plastered stone building on a rectangular plan, oriented east, with a semicircular apse and a two-storey tower on the south side of the presbytery. Two chapels stand on the north side and one on the south, and stepped buttresses support the nave walls. The saddle roof is covered with slate, and the tower ends in a lantern helm with an onion dome and a gilded cross.

A wooden church with a tower stood here in the 16th century and was demolished in 1729. The Opava Jesuit college then built the present stone church between 1729 and 1731; the foundation stone was laid on 1 April 1731, and a stone marked 1731 is kept behind the main altar. In 1893–1894 builder Josef Holuscha of Dolní Benešov extended the nave and removed the side galleries. The tower was hit at the end of World War II, and the church was restored in 1967–1969 and again in 1996–2000.

The church is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Hať. Its side altars, made in 1894 by the Ratiboř sculptor Josef Rzytki, carry unusual symbols: one shows a Divine Ear in a triangle instead of the Divine Eye, and the altar of Saint John Nepomuk a tongue in a triangle. Since 2019 a Stations of the Cross stands by the church.

The church stands in the cemetery grounds, with the war memorial at the main gate and a second memorial opposite the entrance; a Stations of the Cross was added by the church in 2019. The tower clock and gilded cross on the lantern were renewed during the 1996–2000 restoration. The interior is entered from the west front, whose gable bears the year 1894.

The tower holds three bells: a late-Gothic bell cast in 1504, requisitioned in 1942, found in 1970 and returned from Holzgerlingen, Germany, on 14 July 1980, plus two bells cast in 1980 by the residents of Hať and Darkovice in case it never came back.