Sudějov: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

Sudějov is a pilgrimage site with a special connection to its spring: the spring was attributed with miraculous properties early on, and Sudějov owes its origins and name to it.

Culture

The Baroque pilgrimage church of St. Anne was built from 1724 onwards and consecrated the following year. It is a single-nave building with a polygonally enclosed, recessed presbytery. The pilgrimage complex around St. Anne’s Church was completed in 1742 with arcades, towers and chapels.

The pilgrimage complex includes a Lourdes grotto with a statue of the Virgin Mary. The chapels at the pilgrimage site in Sudějov were decorated by the renowned Czech painter Václav Kramolín. The vault of the Chapel of St. James bears a painting depicting the liberation of Vienna from the Turks by Jan Sobieski in 1683. The first chapel in the pilgrimage complex in Sudějov is decorated with a painting of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, while the third chapel is dedicated to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

A small exhibition about the origins and history of this pilgrimage site can be visited in the reconstructed Baroque rectory opposite the church.

Pilgrimage

Pilgrims and visitors can attend Mass in St. Anne’s Church every Saturday at 6 p.m. Every year on 26 July, the pilgrimage site in Sudějov hosts the well-attended pilgrimage festival in honour of St. Anne. The revived Svatoanenská pilgrimage in Sudějov is attended by several hundred people every year.

In 1843, the spring water was channelled to a separate, freely accessible chapel on the village square in front of the church.

Landscape

Sudějov is situated in a picturesque landscape of forests and fields.

Other places

If you would like to open other destination pages from this selection, Krchleby, Košice U Nepoměřic, Hlízov, Chlístovice, Rašovice, Opatovice I, Vlkaneč and Zbizuby are available to you.

For the higher-level travel overview: Kutná Hora District.