Church of St. John the Baptist in Pohoří

The original chapel of St. John the Baptist was built in 1863 and consecrated on August 28 of the same year by the influent dean of Králové Hradec Jan N. Rais. Already 30 years later, they began to think about building a new chapel, because the previous one was small and already very flimsy. Because of this construction, a great scandal broke out in the Pohoří in the spring of 1894. The dean of Opočen procured a plan for the building from the princely builder K.…