Svatý Jakub
Czechia
Look at how the church sits on the square in Polička and you are looking at a decision made when the town itself was laid out. The first church here went up at the time King Přemysl Otakar II founded Polička, and its precise orientation on the square follows the urban plan dating from 1265. Even the dedication is a period piece: St James the Greater was a typical patron for the towns founded during the colonisation of the 13th century. Before you look at a single detail of the building, the ground plan of the town is already telling you how old the idea of this church is.
- Written with AI from the Wikipedia article Kostel svatého Jakuba (Polička) (cs.wikipedia.org); facts only from there
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