Out of gratitude for being spared before the plague broke out in 1680, Count Franz Kolowrat-Krakowsky had the Chapel of the Holy Trinity built on Mount Horka in 1691. The chapel, built in Italian Baroque style, has an unusual triangular plan, alluding to the motif of the Holy Trinity by French architect Jean Baptiste Mathey, who was working in Bohemia at the time and designed the building.
In 1830 the Counts of Westphalen-Fürstenberg became the owners of Chlumec. Josef Klement Graf von Westphalen had a family tomb built on the Horka under the chapel.
In the second half of the 18th century, 14 Stations of the Cross were erected on the way from the village church up to the chapel.
Chapel of the Holy Trinity in Chlumec
Address
Pod Horkou 132
403 39 Chlumec
Contact
Arrival
From the bus stop "Chlumec" directions_railway directions_bus you walk about 25 minutes along the park in Chlumec and along the Way of the Cross to the chapel.
From the parking lot on the street "Pod Horkou" it is a little shorter.
If you arrive by train, from the station "Chlumec u Chabařovic" directions_railway directions_bus it is about 1.7 km to the chapel. However, the line to Telnice is served only seasonally, so not in winter.
