Chapel of Saint Anne, Religious chapel in Satalice, Czech Republic.
The Chapel of Saint Anne is a Baroque building with a rectangular plan and a semicircular presbytery, its facade undulating around a central risalit with a rectangular portal and a segmental-arched window. A prismatic tower with an onion dome rises above the west front, and stone vases stand on plinths at the corners. It sits in a small park between the streets K Radonicům and Za Kapličkou, on the southern edge of the Bažantnice nature monument.
A smaller chapel dedicated to Saint Anne stood here before the current building, which dates from the second quarter of the 18th century, often given as 1730, and is attributed to Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. In 1737 the tower was raised and its dome covered with sheet metal. The altarpiece of Saint Anne was painted by Josef Vojtěch Hellich after the Vinohrady parish priest Hlaváček requested interior improvements in 1876.
The chapel is dedicated to Saint Anne, and regular services are held here for the Roman Catholic parish of Prague-Vinoř. The name recalls the noblewoman Františka Alžběta Apolonie of Swéerts-Reist, who gave birth to her daughter Anna Kateřina nearby on 13 April 1689 and vowed to enlarge the small chapel in gratitude to Saint Anne.
The chapel stands in a small park between the streets K Radonicům and Za Kapličkou, on the southern edge of the Bažantnice nature monument in Satalice. A group of four old lime trees, planted around 1800, grows nearby. The building is a listed cultural monument and belongs to the Roman Catholic parish based in Prague-Vinoř.
Four lime trees survive from a group planted around 1800 beside the chapel, standing near the southern edge of the Bažantnice nature monument. The chapel's tower was raised in 1737 and its dome covered with sheet metal. The altarpiece of Saint Anne, painted in the later 19th century, is by Josef Vojtěch Hellich, who also portrayed the writer Božena Němcová.
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