Statue of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Religious statue in Skalníkovy sady, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
The Statue of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux stands at the edge of Skalníkovy sady, at the foot of what remains of Bernard's Rock, below the terrace with the Column of the Dukes of Cambridge. The bareheaded saint wears a pleated monastic habit; his left hand holds a cross wrapped in a thorn crown with an "INRI" tablet, resting against his bent left leg, while his right hand lies on his chest. The low prismatic pedestal bears the carved year "1706".
The statue was placed on Bernard's Rock in 1706; its sculptor is unknown. In 1844–1845 the overhanging granite spur was broken off and the wild hot springs beneath it were channelled into a single spring, named Bernard's Spring after the rock. In 1891, when part of the spur was quarried away to widen the Mill Colonnade, the statue was moved down to the lower edge of the rock. It was restored in 1992.
The statue recalls the Bernard's Spring that once flowed beneath Bernard's Rock; the spring was named after the rock, not the saint. The figure stands at the edge of Skalníkovy sady, below the terrace with the Column of the Dukes of Cambridge, and its pedestal carries the date 1706.
The statue stands at the lower edge of Bernard's Rock, by Skalníkovy sady at the foot of the rock remnant, below the terrace with the Column of the Dukes of Cambridge. It faces the left-bank promenade by the Mill Colonnade, so it is passed on foot along the Teplá. The low prismatic pedestal carries the date 1706.
The statue's base is carved with the year 1706, but the figure itself has no documented sculptor. The granite spur it stands on once reached into the middle of the Teplá riverbed; blasting in 1844–1845 and later quarrying for the Mill Colonnade left only the lower edge, where the statue was moved down in 1891.
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