Železná. Кostel sv. Barbory

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The baroque church was built in 1718, consecrated on 8/9/1718, rebuilt in 1744. In 1909 it was equipped with an organ, in 1916 the choir and the main and side altars were renovated, and the ceiling was decorated with wall paintings, in 1922 a carillon was purchased, in 1937 then new church pews. The church was single nave, rectangular (15 x 40 m), with a prismatic tower 30 m high in the western facade and a rectangular presbytery ending in an apse on the eastern side, with a rectangular sacristy in the axis and a rectangular vestibule along the southern side of the nave. The nave was vaulted with four fields of rolled vault (separate rolled bands) with lunettes, the presbytery was glassed with a pancake, the apse with a conch, the vestibule with a cross. The interior of the church was Rococo. After 1948, the church was used as a stable and a hayloft, before the demolition the rafters and covering were removed from the ship, on 25/03/1965 the church was blown up.