St Barbara's Church
A Gothic cathedral style church in Kutná Hora, dedicated to the patron saint of miners and financed by the town's silver wealth. Work began in 1388 and finished only in 1905, and its tent like roofs and ribbed vaults are famous.
- Where
- Kutná Hora, Central Bohemia, Czechia
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 49.9449, 15.2636
Get the St Barbara's Church stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at St Barbara's Church. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Central Bohemia volume with your photos and a note.
Near St Barbara's Church
Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec 2.5 km
A former Cistercian abbey church at Sedlec near Kutná Hora, remodelled by Jan Santini Aichel in a Baroque Gothic style around 1700. It forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Kutná Hora.
Sedlec Ossuary 2.6 km
A small chapel beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, near Kutná Hora. It holds the bones of tens of thousands of people, arranged into chandeliers, garlands and a coat of arms by the woodcarver František Rint in 1870.
Kladruby nad Labem Stud Farm 20 km
A landscape for breeding ceremonial carriage horses on the Elbe plain, centred on a stud farm founded in 1579. It is the home of the Kladruber horse, a Habsburg court breed, and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.
Konopiště Castle 47 km
A four winged, three storey castle in Konopiště, now part of the town of Benešov. It is famous as the last residence of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in 1914 set off the First World War, and it holds his huge collection of hunting trophies.
Ležáky 47 km
A former hamlet in eastern Bohemia that Nazi forces razed in June 1942 in reprisal after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Its adults were shot and the children taken away, and today outlines of the houses mark a memorial site.
Prachov Rocks 58 km
A group of sandstone rock towers and cliffs about 5 kilometres west of Jičín, in the region known as Bohemian Paradise. They have been a protected natural reserve since 1933, and marked trails wind between the pillars to several viewpoints.
Žižkov Television Tower 60 km
A transmitter tower built in Prague between 1985 and 1992, designed by architect Václav Aulický and engineer Jiří Kozák. It rises high above the city's traditional skyline from a hill in Žižkov, with an observation deck and large crawling baby sculptures on its shafts.
National Monument in Vítkov 60 km
A monument on top of Vítkov Hill in Prague's Žižkov district, among the most important buildings commemorating Czech statehood. It stands beside a large bronze equestrian statue of the Hussite commander Jan Žižka and looks out across the city.
More UNESCO World Heritage sites in Central Bohemia
Questions
Where is St Barbara's Church?
St Barbara's Church is in Kutná Hora, Central Bohemia, Czechia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec (2.5 km), Sedlec Ossuary (2.6 km), Kladruby nad Labem Stud Farm (20 km).
How do I get the St Barbara's Church stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at St Barbara's Church and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Central Bohemia volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to St Barbara's Church before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Central Bohemia volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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