Abstract
The article deals with the Baroque history of the Ore Mountain foothills, specifically the area roughly bounded by the Duchcov dominion and Osek holdings at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. The basic starting point of the article are passages from the German translation of the Marian atlas from the Osek Cistercian monk Augustine Sartoria from 1717, in which the Ore Mountain foothills area, specifically the northeastern extremity of the Most basin, is identified as Marian country.
The same metaphor then appears in the contemporary works of other contemporary preachers. The article examines the question of which roots this interpretation of the local landscape comes from, primarily focusing on surviving architectural monuments, namely Marian shrines, which, according to Baroque texts, make up the support of the imaginary Marian country.