Kaple svatého Martina na Zadních Paštích, Chapel shrine in Hartmanice, Czech Republic.
Saint Martin Chapel stands between two old linden trees on the site of the vanished settlement of Zadní Paště. The rebuilt chapel is smaller than the original: it is set inside the surviving masonry of the 1918 chapel, with glass doors and two side windows lighting the closed interior.
The first chapel was built in the 17th century and belonged to the Scheinosthof farmstead. It was rebuilt in 1918, but after the German population was expelled in 1946 the settlement emptied. When the Dobrá Voda military training area was created in the 1950s, Zadní Paště vanished and the chapel was demolished; volunteers from the Šumavské cesty association rebuilt it in 2011.
Each year on 11 November, Saint Martin's Day, believers gather at the chapel for a service, continuing a tradition documented before the settlement vanished. Nearby stand five replica wooden boards that recall five young members of the Scheinost family, builders of the original chapel, who died in the 1918 flu epidemic.
The chapel stands at 805 m on a green-marked public hiking trail from Prášily, running along the eastern slope of Slunečná through the vanished village of Stodůlky and the Křemelná valley. The path passes right beside the building, then continues via Prostřední and Přední Paště down to the Otava, which it crosses at Paštěcký most (river km 110.3) to join the red trail toward Čeňkova pila.
Two farmsteads, Scheinosthof and Sallerhof, once stood here and worked the surrounding lands. The chapel remains as the only trace of this vanished settlement now swallowed by forest.
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