Chlum Svaté Maří

Chlum Svaté Maří, 1960-1990 Chlum nad Ohri ( German Maria Kulm ) is a municipality with 282 inhabitants in the Czech Republic. The most significant Egerlander Marian shrine is located three kilometers north of the city nad Ohri Kynšperk (Königsberg ad Eger ) left the Eger and belongs to the Okres Sokolov on. The land area is 471 ha

Geography

The place is located at the northern foot of the Imperial Forest in 539 m asl Neighboring towns are Bukovany and Dasnice in the east, Horni Pochlovice and Kaceřov in the west and Lítov and Habartov in the north. North of the village was the mining of lignite, there is now a mining landscape.

History

Kulm was first documented in 1341, but is probably older. Since the 13th century there was a wooden chapel with a statue of the Virgin Mary. In its place was built in 1400 a wooden church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene. After the church was burned in 1429 by the Hussites, Henry of tearing Green had a church built of stone.

During the 15th century, Kulm developed into a patch. The place came into the possession of the Cross with the Red Star, who built a provost. 1651 made ​​him Archbishop and Grand Master Ernst Adalbert von Harrach to town with the right to wear their own coat of arms. By the Archbishop and Grand Master Johann Friedrich von Wallenstein was a Rectory in the collection of the parish. 1666 erected the Cross with the Red Star to the southeast and a Coming in 1690 began construction of the baroque pilgrimage church. Was completed, the complex Maria Kulm in 1728. The old stains Kulm was henceforth referred to as Rauenkulm. During the 19th century, Maria Kulm and Rauenkulm grew together to one place.

The residents of the place Germans were expropriated in 1945 and largely expelled. After the Second World War, the church was severely neglected during the reign of the Communists. The official name of the village was changed to Chlum nad Ohri. After the Velvet Revolution was the resumption of Marian pilgrimages by the faithful from the Upper Palatinate and the Czech Republic; there was a development association. With the support of donations were in the church between 2001 and 2006 urgent repairs, including on the organ, performed. In May 2007 a ​​concept for the redevelopment of the great need of repair the whole complex was developed.

On the southern outskirts of the village is located on the mountain Drsný vrch (570 m) a stone lookout tower, which is not publicly available, with views over the Egertal. On this a transmission system of the Czech Radio is installed.

Attractions

• Baroque pilgrimage church, built in 1690-1712 by Christoph Dietzenhofer, with miraculous image of 1280, frescoes by Elias Dollhopf and the grace altar of Karl Stilp from 1730

• Chapel of the Virgin Mary on the helpful Drsný vrch ( Mary Our Lady mountain).

Sons and daughters of the town

• Josef Stingl (1919-2004), German politician