The Church of St. John the Baptist
The Church of St. John the Baptist
Originally the hospice and cemetery church, dated back to 1414. Original plain gothic building, which used to stand in the middle of the cemetery, was pulled down in 1843 because of the unsatisfactory technical condition. The present empire church, built after the designs of J. Sandner, was consecrated in 1848. The altarpiece of the Christening of the Lord Jesus was given to the church by the empress Caroline Augusta. Most of the furnishings are of the neo-Rennaissance and neo-baroque origin. In front of the church there stands the forged cross from the year 1847 with a newer statue of Jesus Christ. Adjoining cemetery was, after the winding up in the 80s of the 20th century, converted into a sacred place. Only the graves of the Herites family, the Mokry family and neo-gothic dean tomb have kept preserved. Since 2005 it has been called The Park of John Paul II.
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