German name: Gutwasser

A well-known pilgrimage site with a well of supposedly healing water, the administrative center of the extensive military training area Dobrá Voda, inaccessible to civilians for almost four decades before 1989.
The history of the Dobrá Voda settlement allegedly dates back to ancient pagan times. The first written mention of the settlement dates from 1602.

Not far from Dobrá Vody, under the peak of Mount Březník, he lived from 1040 and died in 1045, a Benedictine monk,
hermit St. Vintíř (Günther). Personality of European importance, missionary and diplomat.

Church of St. In 1706, Baron František Karel Villani had Vintíre built on the site of the original wooden chapel.

Since the fifties of the last century, the church fell into disrepair, it served the army as a warehouse, the altar, organ, interior decoration and pews disappeared. Fortunately, it did not meet the same sad fate as many other churches in Šumava and was not demolished.

The church was repaired and rededicated on the occasion of the 950th anniversary of the death of St. Vintíř in 1995 thanks to the significant help of former natives of Dobrá Voda.

In 2001, the well-known local glass artist Vladěna Tesařová created a unique glass altar with a scene of the Crucifixion and depictions of saints from the Central European area, led by St. Vintíre. It is a three-part relief measuring 4.5 x 3.2 m and weighing almost 4 tons. The work continues the tradition of glass processing in Šumava.

The interior of the church is further complemented by a glass Way of the Cross, a glass ambon (speaker's platform), an altar table and a nativity scene.

Near the church there is a 
spring chapel above a well of (supposedly) healing water, for which people come from a wide area.

In the birthplace of Dr. Šimon Adler, a prominent rabbi, pedagogue and scholar, was built as a museum - a branch of the Šumava Museum. Dr. Šimon Adler was executed in 1944 in Auschwitz. Part of the exhibition commemorates 25 towns and villages from the region where there were Jewish communities before the war and presents liquidated and saved monuments – synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, etc. One of the exhibitions is dedicated to St. Vintners.

 

 


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