Chapel of Saint John of Nepomuk, Baroque chapel on Červená hora, Czech Republic
The Chapel of Saint John of Nepomuk is a rectangular chapel with a small tower, built in 2011 to a design by architect Jan Kovář. It stands at 679 m above sea level southeast of Guntramovice, near the Červená hora hill in the Nízký Jeseník mountains. A memorial plaque at the entrance honours Milena Jesenská and Maria Kotrba-Nickl.
The chapel was built at the initiative of Walter Kotrba from Erlangen, to a design by the architect Jan Kovář. Construction started in March 2011 and the chapel was consecrated on 25 June 2011. Since 2002 a European field mass has been held here each year for those fallen on Europe's battlefields.
Since 2002 an European Field Mass has been held here each year for those fallen on Europe's battlefields. The chapel was built on the initiative of Walter Kotrba of Erlangen and consecrated on 25 June 2011. A plaque at the entrance honours two women, the journalist Milena Jesenská, who died in Ravensbrück, and the teacher and poet Maria Kotrba-Nickl, expelled to Germany in 1946.
The chapel stands at 679 m on the slope southeast of Guntramovice, northeast of Červená hora in the Nízký Jeseník range. It sits by the Path of Czech-German Understanding, next to the Memorial to Czech-German Understanding and the monument to the victims of the Battle of Guntramovice. Approach on foot from Guntramovice; the site is a stop on that commemorative route rather than a summit climb.
The chapel was built in 2011 to a design by Ing. arch. Jan Kovář, on the initiative of Walter Kotrba of Erlangen, and consecrated on 25 June 2011. It stands at 679 m on the slope of Červená hora, near the memorial to the Battle of Guntramovice and the Golden Linden, a protected tree linked to local legends.
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