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Hospital and St Catherine Chapel is a Baroque monument in Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou. It can be found a short way far from the bridge over the Rokytná river.

History

The current appearance comes from 1672. Jan Kreutz (Crux), steward of Jan Antonín of Questenberk, had it built.

Jan Václav Achantes consecrated it. For a long time it was the only building

on the right bank of the Rokytná. Between it and the river there was a large garden. On the other side of it there was a cloister and Loretto Chapel. Behind the Chapel there was a yard and farm buildings.

Interior

The interior of the hospital divides the cloister into four parts: the first two have economic importance (a kitchen and a pantry), two were bedrooms (one for six men, the other for six women), each with a window directly into the naval chapel for the sick to watch the Holy Mass and services.

The hall is paved, vaulted and leads to the chapel.

Shapes

The chancel is an octagon. The sides of the square are 3.55 m long, sides of the main axis of 3.4 m and the sides instead of corners are 1.5 m .

The walls hold a dome with a lantern.

Chapel

The main altar with a bricked sacrificial table is in the front. The portrait of St Catherine is a part of it. There is a big cross above that. There are black colums on the sides. A shrine with a small white cross is on the altar. Between the chancel and the nave there was a pulpit in 1813.

Before the reconstruction

After the reconstruction in 2013

Sculptures on the bridge

Author: Vojtěch Papoušek