Church of Fourteen Holy Helpers, Catholic church in Tři Sekery, Czech Republic
The Church of Fourteen Holy Helpers is a single-nave Roman Catholic church in Tři Sekery, built on a 23.8 by 11.6 metre plan with a 9.5 by 8.35 metre presbytery. A 32-metre square tower with a bulbous dome was added on the west side in 1807–1809. The building was erected under reeve Peter Lanzendörfer by mason Gallus Lenhart of Trstěnice and carpenter Josef Hufnagl of Tři Sekery.
Emperor Joseph II authorized construction of a parish church at Tři Sekery in a letter of 10 February 1787, and the independent parish dates from 13 March 1787. Disputes over whether the church would stand on the Metternich Kynžvart or Windischgrätz Tachov estate delayed work; the Tachov part of the village built it. The church was consecrated in 1790 by Augustin Haberle, and the 32-metre tower was added in 1807–1809. The municipality bought the decaying church in 2007 and renovated it in stages from April 2009 to May 2011.
The church is named for the Fourteen Holy Helpers, whose life-size statues were moved into the nave in 1860 after the main altar was taken down. The church now hosts exhibitions, concerts, weddings and funerals rather than regular parish services.
The church stands in Tři Sekery, in the Cheb district of the Karlovy Vary region. It is used mainly for civic and cultural events such as exhibitions, concerts, weddings and funerals, so opening times vary with the event. The tower, added in 1807–1809, is 32 metres high and visible from a distance.
The sandstone statue of Archangel Michael by the church predates the building: it was carved in 1717 and moved here in 1762 from the abandoned mining settlement Cech svatého Víta. The date on its base records a renovation in 1797, and it has been a protected cultural monument since 1963.
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