Lysá hora 1323 m n. m. - královna Moravskoslezských Beskyd

The church is except castle turrets the main dominant of town. Baroque three-aisled orientated oblong church with semicircular close of choir was built by Jesuits in 1732 - 1740 on the place of older Gothic church. The building has almost perfectly oblong ground plan, from its monumental but statical prismatic mass rises only semicircular close of choir. Chancel as wide as the main body overlay wholy in exterior vestry with oratories on the floors which are widely and highly identical with side bodies.
The main entrance into the church with right-angled stony portal in passage of Renaissance tower, other side entrances are on the sides in the front, other couple of entrances empties from sides into side bodies and through the last two right-angled portals man enters the sacristy. Church interior creates monumental compact three-aisled space with wide main body, arched barrel vault with sectors. Choir separated from the main body by wide arcade of champion arch is arched with barrel vault. From interior most of all engraved pews and confession booths dating back to 18th century and altar paintings of E. F. Herbert intrigue. The main altar and pulpit are a work of sculptor of Olomouc Jan Kammereit.

In front of the western front of church stands Renaissance prismatic tower that was built according to design of local architect Ignác Kloss by parish church at the expense of town in 1587 - 1629, i.e. in the time when no catholic spiritual intendance was and the german population of Lutheran confession met in the parish church. On the peak of southern portal there is a label with mark of portreeve of Nový Jičín Thomas Heinrich and year of building - 1587, on the peak of northern portal there is lion head, over portal there is a plague with today badly legible inscription in which it is said about finishing of arcade gallery in 1618. In the passage there is embrasure of chapel and right-angled portal of church, dated in vault-stone: "A 1732". Mass of tower is divided by slotted windows, on the highest floor there are windows of bell tower with semicircular funicular archs over which there are clock-faces. The tower is crowned by onion cupola with lantern. In 1854 today's cupola was adjusted.

Parish Church of Assumption of the Virgin Mary

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