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Chapel of the Transfiguration of the Lord
The cemetery chapel, built in Neo-Romanesque-Byzantine style on the plan of a Greek cross, was built between 1865 and 1868. An older wooden tabernacle stood on its site. According to the project of A. Turek had it built by Count Hanuš Kolovrat. After 1970 the cemetery was closed.
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Reklama
Synagogue
Late Baroque (or also Classical) synagogue building from 1782 (also 1787), built on the site of an earlier Renaissance synagogue that burned down in 1779. It was rebuilt in 1913. During the occupation it was destroyed and after the war it was used as a warehouse and gas shop of the Benzina. In the 1990s it was renovated as the seat of the Jewish Museum of Podorlicka and the Karel Poláček Memorial.
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Church of the Holy Trinity
The late Gothic church was built between 1594 and 1602 by Christopher Getengel of Neunberg. Probably in 1713, the main façade was presented in a roundel style, probably according to the design of Jan Blazej Santini-Aichl. In 1798 it was damaged by fire. According to the plan of arch. František Pavíček, a neo-Gothic nave was built between 1838 and 1843.
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Town Hall
The first written mention of the Rychnov Town Hall dates back to 1596, however, the current Classicist (or late Baroque) building dates back to 1802 (possibly as early as 1800) to 1804 and is most likely the work of J. Najman (or J. V. Ehemann).
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Old Square
There are several listed buildings in the Old Square, including the Town Hall. There is also a fountain, a crucifix with the Sorrowful Virgin Mary, and statues of St. John of Nepomuk and St. Florian.
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Monument to the Victims of the War of 1866
The Monument to the Victims of the War of 1866 is situated in the park, in the former cemetery near the Chapel of the Transfiguration. The memorial is in the shape of a four-sided conical spire placed on a pedestal.
The inscription on the monument reads: Pilgrim herald to all my countrymen that we, the dead here We lie as laws have commanded us.
1866 Built by the Kolovrat retired soldiers' association in Rychnov n. Kn. with supporters 1891
Names of the fallen:
Tomáš Dománek Morava 1866 Killed in battle Galeo Gubola Poland 1866 Killed in action Pavel Javorsky Poland 1866 Killed in action Martin Jindrasek Poland 1866 Killed in action Jan Koživ Poland 1866 Killed in action Luioo Lonoo Trevir 1866 Killed in action Matej Niverkal Austria 1866 Killed in action Konstantin Popricz Poland 1866 Killed in action Matěj Soukup Lomnice 1866 Killed in action Antonín Štefek Habrová 1866 Killed in action Frantisek Steindl Styria 1866 Killed in action Frantisek Zavadil 1866 Killed in action
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Fountain
A sandstone fountain with a square stone basin, in the middle of which stands a simple column decorated with gargoyles in the shape of fish. It was created in 1841 and further modified in 1896
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