Church of St. Peter and Paul - Řeznovice

The church in Řeznovice is one of the most remarkable Romanesque buildings in the Czech lands. The Romanesque cathedral was built in the second half of the 12th century and could have been ordered to be built by the Znojmo noble prince Konrad II. Otto some time after 1160.

At that time, it was the owner's church probably connected by a footbridge to the nearby farmyard, which possibly stood in the place of today's rectory. The temple consisted of a preserved central space with an octagonal belfry and three apses, with adjoined small prismatic building with a loft on the western side, where the foundations have been preserved and found during an archaeological exploration. Around the mid-16th century this building was demolished and replaced by a Renaissance nave of rectangular ground plan, with a vestibule added a little later to the south entrance.

In the second half of the 16th century the roofing of the tower was changed, when the common roof was replaced by a brick pyramid formation, which in the upper part passes into a cone. In the 18th century the sacristy was added to the eastern apse, which was demolished in 1893 and replaced by the current one, which is added to the northern side of the nave. Other adjustments, such as the entrance in the west front of the nave and the new choir, were made in the late 19th century.

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