On 22 June 1732, the third Sunday after the feast of the Holy Spirit, Gothic statuette of Our Lady of Svatá Hora was solemnly crowned this event has been commemorated annually ever since then. Since then it fell into disrepair and was renewed several times. This staircase was built in 1658 with funds provided by a pious nobleman. This structure incorporates a unique component: a long and roofed staircase connecting it to the town. Svatá Hora is by far the most beautiful architectural monument of Príbram region. A balustrade with statues of saints, four staircases descending from the terrace into a cloister, two impressive gates and a priceless stucco decoration of the ceiling. The present shape of Svatá Hora dates from the beginning of the 18th century. The original simple church completely changed its appearance, having been enclosed by a cloister with four corner chapels. Most of the second half of the 17th century was occupied by a fundamental rebuilding of Svatá Hora according to the plans of Italian architects, escpecially famous Carlo Lurago. The Baroque appreciation of mystic excitement and miracles of every kind launched the shrine of Virgin Mary to the highest position among all the pilgrimage centers of Bohemia. On the emperor's orders, the Jesuits, experts in propaganda efficiency, took over the chapel administration in 1647.
Though the Príbram population embraced the Hussite cause in the 15th century, the chapel suffered no adversities.īasilica of the Assumption of Virgin MaryĪ major breakthrough in the destiny of Svatá Hora, however, came about in the half of 17th century. The chapel is likely to have been built in the 14th century when Pribram belonged to the bishops of Prague who later became archbishops. Bohuslav Balbin, who saw the chapel in its original form, assumed on grounds of the appearance of its bells and of paintings of miners on its walls that it was very old. Though Svatá Hora was renowned in Balbin’s times, it still awaited its grandiose rebuilding. A tiny chapel looms above a diminutive and ugly borough bearing the traces of devastation of the Thirty years' war. It would be hard indeed to recognize in it the present town of forty thousand. Küssel, representing the most ancient depiction of Pribram. One of the illustrations of this book is an engraving by M. In 1665, Bohuslav Balbin, a historian of Bohemia, published a book on Svatá Hora written in Latin. Baroque complex Svatá Hora (Holy Hill), the prominent Marian pilgrimage site of Czech Lands with central Basilica of the Assumption of Virgin Mary, is also an outstanding cultural, architectonic and historic monument of the country.
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