Church of Saint Catherine, Catholic church in Křižovatka, Czech Republic.
The Church of Saint Catherine is a single-nave oriented masonry building on a rectangular plan with a right-angled presbytery and a square tower added to the west facade. The tower, with its clock, is divided by horizontal stucco bands, and the entrance leads through a portal in the tower. Inside, the nave has a flat wooden beam ceiling, the presbytery a barrel vault with lunettes, and a three-sided wooden gallery stands at the west end.
The church is one of the oldest in the Cheb district, with origins dated to 1213 or 1273. Hussites destroyed it during the Hussite wars and it was restored in 1446; the Thirty Years' War ruined it again and rebuilding waited until 1770. A Gothic building was converted to Neoclassical form in 1812–1813, when the tower was added, and the interior with wall paintings dates from 1895. It was declared a cultural monument in 1996.
The church now hosts a permanent exhibition and serves as a venue for community meetings, concerts and wedding ceremonies. Its restoration, funded by the Ministry of Culture, the State Agricultural Fund and the village budget, cost 10,000,000 CZK and won the Patrimonium pro futuro award in 2013.
The church stands in the Křižovatka cadastral area in the Cheb District, near the German border. The village took over the derelict building in 2008 and restored it; access is through the tower portal. It now hosts a permanent exhibition and events, so opening depends on the programme rather than regular services.
Archaeological research during the renovation uncovered the ground plan of a medieval church and a silver coin from the second half of the 13th century. In 2013 the village received the Patrimonium pro futuro award from the National Heritage Institute for the restoration, which cost 10,000,000 CZK.
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