Mouřenec

Mouřenec / autor: Viktor Fiala (Plzeň)
Mouřenec
Mouřenec falls into the administrative area of Dlouhá Ves. The place has been known since pagan times. The legend says that the place was consecrated to the gods Černobog (Black God) and Morana. After Christianizing of the region a small wooden church was built on top of the hill thanks to Benedictine monks, allegedly even thanks to Saint Gunther himself. Late Romanesque stone Church of St. Mauritz, the patron of the Benedictine Order, replaced the wooden one in 1230. The church went through adaptations in the 15th century, when an ossarium (charnel house) for the storage of human skeletal remains from cancelled graves of the cemetery. After the World War II, when local German inhabitants were displaced, the buildings of the church and the charnel house were completely vacated and almost became extinct during the communist era. Luckily, in 1991 several enthusiasts formed the Benefit Club of St. Moritz and started reconstruction. The church was reopened and consecrated on 2nd February 1993 already. Also the cemetery and the adjoined charnel house went through respectful reconstruction. On the occasion of their reopening to public a letter signed by the Cardinal Ratzinger, today's Pope Benedict XVI, was sent to Dlouhá Ves with blessings and wishes of re-establishment of good relations between Bavaria and Bohemia. Which of the other Czech villages may boast to have received blessings from the Pope?

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