Chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, Religious chapel in Zásmuky, Czech Republic.
The Chapel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary stands on a solitary spot in the northern part of Zásmuky, reached by an old lime avenue along Nádražní street. The prismatic chapel has a square plan with an interior side of 5.3 metres, chamfered corners, pilasters on the facades and an attic topped with battlements and pinnacles. A low rectangular annex on the north side serves as the entrance to the crypt; a small rectangular forest cemetery with a brick Neo-Gothic manor tomb lies to the northeast.
Adolf Vratislav of Šternberk had the chapel built in 1681 as thanks for the averting of plague; it was repaired in 1783. In 1867 Jaroslav of Šternberk had it reworked in Neo-Gothic style and added a low rectangular entrance annex to the crypt on the north side. Repairs followed in 1968, funded by a gift from Mrs Kostelecká of Svojšice, and in 2004 at the expense of Franziska Diana Sternbergová Phipps.
The chapel is called "v Lípách" after the old lime-tree avenue that leads to it along Nádražní street. In the crypt lie Jaroslav of Šternberk, his wife Eleonora and their grandson Karel Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, who died soon after birth; wall gravestones recall them.
The chapel stands on a lone spot on U Kapličky street in the northern part of Zásmuky, reached along Nádražní street by an old lime avenue that gives the site its name "v Lípách". A low rectangular annex on the north side serves as the entrance to the crypt. The small rectangular forest cemetery with the brick Neo-Gothic manor tomb lies to the northeast.
The chapel's name "v Lípách" comes from the old lime-tree avenue running along Nádražní street from the town. In the crypt lie three people: Jaroslav of Šternberk, his wife Eleonora and their grandson Karel Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, who died shortly after birth; wall gravestones record them.
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