Church of St John of Nepomuk (Krahulčí)

Suggested by the community as another node on the 'Templar line' that threads this part of Moravia, the church sits apart from the village on its hill, overlooking the UNESCO-listed town of Telč. Reached by a track from the road, it keeps a quiet, set-apart atmosphere. On the grounds are a well or spring and a scatter of stones that the site's proposer suggests may be far older – possibly Neolithic – hinting that the hill may have been marked as significant long before the Baroque church was built upon it. This entry is community-contributed and has not yet been surveyed: its energy-line associations and any pre-Christian use remain to be confirmed.

The Church of St John of Nepomuk stands on a wooded hill – Nováčkův kopec – just south of the road between the historic town of Telč and the village of Krahulčí, in the Vysočina region of the Czech Republic. This dynamic-Baroque pilgrimage church was built in 1726–28 for the owners of the Telč estate, Count Franz Anton von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn and his wife Marie Anna von Hallweil, to a design by an as-yet unidentified architect. Laid out on a Latin-cross plan, it is said to be the first church in the Czech lands officially consecrated to St John of Nepomuk, who had been canonised only five years before it was completed. The strongly vertical sanctuary – its towers rising around 28 metres above a nave some 25 metres long – was originally crowned by a cupola, removed after a fire in the early 19th century. Little is recorded of the hilltop before the church was raised.