kostel sv. Jiří
Czechia
You will see St George's long before you reach it. The Roman Catholic church stands in Loučné, a part of Jiříkov in the Šluknov Spur at the far north of Bohemia, and it dominates the whole town. It is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. What you are looking at, though, is only the latest building on this spot. A church in Jiříkov is mentioned, briefly, from 1346, and very little else survives from that time. It was probably a small wooden church, already dedicated to St George. Whether it is the same wooden building recorded at the start of the eighteenth century is not known, so treat the line back to the fourteenth century as a thread rather than a chain.
- Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Kostel svatého Jiří (Jiříkov) (cs.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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