Zálesí. Кostel sv. Barbory, bourání kostela

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All that remained were the steps to the church, the remains of the plinth and a pile of rubble. Since 1751, the church of St. Barbara. It was built in the austere Josephine style. From the front of the rectangular nave with dimensions of 20 x 12 m, a belfry rose, which reached a height of 32 m after the reconstruction in 1904. Until the First World War, its bells not only measured time for the local residents, but also called them to prayer and announced all important events. in their life. The location in Zálesí was part of the Javornica parish. The baroque church was demolished just before the revolution of 1989, based on the decision of the chairman of the Municipal National Committee in Javorník, in the spring of 1989 the church was still standing. The church was not blown up, its demolition took five days. The land on which the church stood belongs to the church, the town of Javorník wants to prospectively build a chapel on the site of the church.