Churches and Chapels

Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption

Address: 
Goethovo náměstí (Goethe Square), tel. 354 622 434

Open:
Monday - Sunday: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. (except the service)

Service:
We, Fr, Sa, Su 4:30 p.m. +  Tu, Th, Su 10:00 a.m.

This place of worship was built in the Neo-Byzantine style in 1844-1848. The construction of the church was initiated by the abbot Marian J. Heinl of the Monastery of Teplá, in the spirit of the abbot K. K. Reitenberger who had resigned. The plan of the orthogonal basilica, erected at the site where the Chapel of the Birth of the Virgin Mary had been standing since 1820, was designed by the architect Johann Gottfried Gutensohn of Munich, Bavaria. The construction was overseen by Anton Thurner of Přimda (architect of the Monastery of Teplá) and Joseph Kranner (builder and sculptor from Prague).

The interior decorations were the collective efforts of the following artists and craftsmen: plasterers Bader of Munich (Bavaria) and Pellegrini of Prague; painters Carl von Hampel of Vienna and Kratzmann of Prague, Strauss and Hochenögg of Munich (Bavaria), and last but not least the architect Bergmann of Prague. The sculptures decorating the church were created by the sculptor Josef Max of Prague, together with his student Josef Paris and assistants. Within the church, visitors may admire the altars consecrated to St. John and St. Norbert, as well as The Sacred Heart and The Holy Cross, not to mention The Stations of the Cross from 1886, created by the painter Mathauser of Prague. The statue of the beatified nobleman Hroznata is among several other noteworthy artworks to be seen. The original church bells dating back to 1835 and 1847 made by W. Sedlmayer of Planá and J. di Valle of Cheb were partly commandeered during the world wars. The church was consecrated by the abbot Heinl in 1848 and by the cardinal and archbishop B. of Schwarzenberk in 1850.

"Corporis Christi" Evangelical Church

The evangelical church was built for evangelical spa guests in 1853-1857 through donations from German Evangelicals supported by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. He then took part in its festive consecration on the 24^th of June 1857. The church was designed by the architect, builder and councilor G. Ch. Cantian (1796-1866) of Berlin, whose plaque and monogram were placed in the church's narthex. The larger-than-life-sized painting of Christ is the dominant feature of the modest flat-ceiling nave of the church. Some of the windows were donated to the church as a gift from the Emperor Wilhelm II in 1907. The fleche on the rooftop was also a later addition. The church was renovated in 1999.

Address: 
Mírové náměstí 90 (Peace Square), tel. 354 622 464

Service: 
Sunday 10 a.m.

"Christ Church" Anglican Church

The Anglican Church is a later work of the architect William Burges from London. In 1879, the builder Friedrich Zickler built the church according to the Burges's layout. The building was initiated by an English lady - Anna Scott of Rodono - in honor of her husband who had died in Mariánské Lázně in 1867, thus she donated 12.000 gold coins for this purpose.

The church was made of red hard-burnt bricks without stucco in an English Roman-Gothic rural style. Only part of the original indoor equipment has been preserved - only the pulpit and a marble memorial plaque from 1911 commemorating the English king Edward VII who visited Mariánské Lázně many times. A section of the permanent exhibition is dedicated to him.

After a large reconstruction in 1994, the church was opened as an exhibition and concert hall. It has served as a ceremonial hall recently.

St. Vladimír's Orthodox Church

In the years 1900 - 1902, St. Vladimír's Orthodox Church replaced an Orthodox chapel which had been operating in the Town Hall since 1878. The orthodox priest Nikolaj N. Pisarevský together with local doctors undertook several fund-raising campaigns among the Serbian and Russian spa guests in order to raise money for a new Orthodox Church. Later, the architect Professor Nikolaj V. Sultanov (1850 - 1908) drew up the plans for the building, which were carried out by the well-known builder Gustav Wiedermann of Františkovy Lázně, who built similar Orthodox churches in Františkovy Lázně (1889) and Karlovy Vary (1893 - 1898). The floor plan is in the shape of a Greek cross whose central square overtops the side apses. A richly decorated majolica iconostasis, created in Kuzněcovo u Tveru for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, dominates the interior of the church. The musical bells were commandeered during the First World War. During the Second World War, the church was used as a storehouse. It was reopened in the second half of the 20^th century.

Jewish Synagogue

formerly located in the lower part of Hlavní Street (Main Street) next to the house at No. 166 named Mars.

Today, it is only an empty grass-covered lot surrounded by spa houses. This Neo-Byzantine basilica with two cupola steeples was completed by the local Jewish architect Eduard Stern in 1884, thanks to donations from members of the local Jewish community, and Jewish spa guests. On November 10 1938, known as the notorious Kristallnacht, the synagogue was burnt and destroyed by the Nazis.