Funeral Chapel of St. Theresa in Nečtiny, Funeral chapel in Hrad Nečtiny, Nečtiny, Czech Republic

The Funeral Chapel of St. Theresa is a neo-Romanesque burial chapel built in 1858 on a circular plan with a projecting entrance porch. A cylindrical lantern with a sheet-metal dome and cross rises above the low shed roof. The east-facing portal bears a cast-iron disc with the Mensdorff-Pouilly coat of arms and a plaque inscribed RESURGENT.

The Mensdorff-Pouilly family, ennobled as counts in Austria in 1818, bought the Nečtiny estate in 1839. Alfons Friedrich Mensdorff-Pouilly, who made Nečtiny his main seat in 1852, had the neo-Romanesque chapel built in 1858 and dedicated it to St. Theresa after his wife Terezie of Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie, who died in 1856. The family's property was nationalised in 1945 and the chapel decayed until its restoration after 1992.

The chapel is named after Saint Theresa because Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly dedicated it in 1858 to his late wife Therese von Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie, who died in 1856. Thirteen members of three generations of the family lie in sarcophagi placed in the arcade corridor that rings the central space.

The chapel stands in a fenced little park behind the farmyard in the western part of Hrad Nečtiny, at about 550 m elevation, not inside the castle itself. It is owned by the municipality and protected as a cultural monument; the site is a burial chapel, so access is not a standard sightseeing visit.

Thirteen members of three generations of the Mensdorff-Pouilly family lie in sarcophagi set in the arcade walkway circling the central space. Three further people are named only on memorial plaques and are not buried here. The altar cross was carved in 1858 by Emanuel Max, and a snake on the stone holds the apple of Adam's sin in its mouth.