Abstract
Radnice during the Baroque period made its mark in the history of architecture with the construction of the Chapel of the Virgin Mary on Calvary (ca. 1735), which represents a real jewel in Czech Baroque architecture and was convincingly attributed to Kilian Ignác Dientzenhofer in the past. The paper attempts to place the creation of this building in its historical context and to introduce the reader to the main initiators of not only this building, but especially other Baroque monuments in the city.
In the shadow of the building, there was still a high-quality Baroqueization of the parish church of St. Wenceslas and the statue of St.
John of Nepomuk, both of which were made under previous owners. Thanks to the constant care of Ferdinand Casimir of Kuperwald and his wife Ludmila Constance, née Countess of Bubno and Lititz, an interesting urban axis leading from the chateau (also well baroquised at that time) to the chapel on Calvary was created in Radnice during the 1820s, which thus became its historically and architecturally logical culmination.