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St. James in Czernin

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GPS coordinates:48°58'59.204"N
16°1'13.08"E

Czernin village is situated in a hilly area surrounded by forests and ancient villages, which was already mentioned 1131 Sometime in the 1st 13th Century was founded Czernin vladyckým family fortress with a tower, as the lower houses of the nobility. In troubled times the 15th century fortress ceased function as residences and buildings have been converted to the parish and the monastery and a hospital. After the abolition of religious orders of the complex was converted into a fortress with the estate distillery. Now there's just a tall chimney on which the storks have built a nest every year and returns of raising young. The most important monument in the village is the church of St. Jacob with early Gothic foundations of the 13th century, adjacent to the local fortress. The other protected monuments of the village is small sacred building, quadrilateral wayside on the road from the early 18th century. Despite the Černín is maintained and marked trail Trail Mlynářská
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