You are bidding on three Photos from 1972.

Motives: Technical facilities at the Relocation of the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Most (German: Brüx) in the Czech Republic. "The building became famous in the 20th century. Century when it was moved 841 meters. To this day, the Church of the Assumption holds the Guinness Record for transporting the heaviest cargo by rail."

Two motifs titled on the back:

No. 49: "View of the 2000 ton steel frame of the church in Most."

No. 50: "View of the railway tracks of the church in Most."

Whether the third motive belongs to it (No. 24), which shows a technical system from Skoda, is unclear.

All motifs by the same photographer (stamps on the photos digitally censored).

Format: 12.5 x 17.7 cm.

Condition: Photos a bit stained, the second motif with a corner bend. Pleasee also note the pictures!

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About the church (source: wikipedia):

Assumption of Mary is a late Gothic church in the Czech town of Most (German: Brüx), whose construction began in 1517 after the great fire of 1515. Jacob Haylmann, a student of the master builder Benedikt Ried, was responsible for the construction. The building was built in the 17th century. Century completed.

The building became famous in the 20th century. Century when it was moved 841 meters. To this day, the Church of the Assumption holds the Guinness Record for transporting the heaviest cargo on rails.

History: The predecessor of today's church was the early Gothic three-aisled basilica, built between 1253 and 1257, based on an edict from Pope Boniface VIII. goes back. Only the eastern crypt and the inner masonry of the western tower remain of the original church. In 1501 Pope Alexander VI confirmed. with the intercession of King Vladislav II. the patronage of the city of Most over the church, which until then had been operated by the Monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in Zderaz near Prague. This church was destroyed in a major fire in the town of Most in 1515.

Since the financing of the new church building could not be fully covered by city funds, an application was made to raise the debt. In 1516, the citizens received permission from Leo X and other church dignitaries to organize a public collection for the new church. A similar permission was granted by King Ludwig II. Jagiellon and the Polish King Sigismund I. The collection took place from March 1517 to May 1519 in Bohemia, Moravia, Saxony, Lusatia and Silesia. Together with other donations, a total of 12,155 kicks and 45 groschen were won. The city had to give a third of the sum to the papal curia; the remaining money was used to build the church and other buildings, such as the rectory or school.

From the 20th In August 1517, work began on building the church on the ruins of the old church by master builder Jakob Haylmann from Schweinfurt, a student of Benedict Ried. He designed the church as a large three-aisled hall church with a retracted choir, a pentagonal choir room, a prismatic tower with a gallery in the main facade, an anteroom on the north wall and a northwest sacristy. In 1518, Georg (Jörg) von Maulbron took over the management of the construction project, followed in 1531 by master Peter Heilmann. In the second decade of the 16th century In the 19th century, the vaults of the ambulatory chapels were completed, the inner columns and the borders of the vault ribs were built. In 1532 the windows were glazed and carved with ribs. The shell was completed in 1549 and portals in the Renaissance style were built around 1550.

During the next city fire in 1578, the church was destroyed again and restored until 1602. It was consecrated in 1594 by the Prague Archbishop Zbynek Berka von Dube. Over the centuries, minor changes were made to the exterior and interior of the building. In 1650 the church was covered with a new roof.

A separate baroque bell tower was built on the church in 1765, which was damaged during a major fire in Most in 1820 and then rebuilt. In 1840 the cemetery wall around the church and the ossuary were demolished.

In the second quarter of the 18th century In the 19th century, the east choir was completed with a monumental main altar, complemented by life-size statues by the Tyrolean sculptor Bartholomäus Eder and paintings by the Jesuit painter Josef Kramolín.

The vault of the church, seen from the gallery.

In the years 1880–1883, the last major interior renovation was carried out by removing part of the Baroque inventory, building a new Gothic painting and a neo-Gothic complex. In 1932, under the direction of the architect Karl Kohn, restoration work was carried out on the external plaster facades and stone objects.

In 1958 the church was declared an immovable cultural monument as a landmark of the city panorama.

Relocation of the church: When the town of Most had to give way to coal mining in 1967 and was rebuilt elsewhere, the Czechoslovak government passed a resolution ordering the deanery church to be saved. The decision was based on a detailed art-historical survey of the building prepared by the State Institute for Conservation and Conservation in Prague. In the Ministry of Culture of the Czechoslovak Republic a commission was established under the chairmanship of Stanislav Bechyně (from 1969 Alois Myslivec) to Monitoring the project activities and the implementation of the entire rescue operation. The advisor was the Russian civil engineer Emmanuel Gendel (1903–1994).

With government resolutions in March and May 1970 it was decided to save the church by relocating it. In the same year, the dismantled church furniture, including the main altar and the moving parts of the interior, were transported to a depot. In 1971 an archaeological survey of the church and its surroundings was carried out. In the following years, a detailed study of the geological conditions in the church area as well as on the transfer route and on the site of the new settlement was gradually carried out. In addition, further investigations were carried out, including with regard to the physical-chemical properties of the historical building materials of the church and the foundations as well as the geophysical conditions of the surrounding area, including in the area of ​​the entire transport route and at the new location. In addition, numerous different laboratory tests and special tests were carried out.

In 1972 the church tower was dismantled. Afterwards, security work began inside the church. The vault was provided with a steel structure that supported the church both inside and outside. The building was then separated from its historic foundation and placed under rails. The perimeter of the church was covered with a concrete ring. The total weight of the church was 12,000 tons. Among Allen statically important points, 53 were specially designed and designed by Hydraulic transport vehicles manufactured by Škoda Pilsen were placed on the constructed transport route. The trucks worked on a hydraulic principle. The hydraulics also controlled the four boom arms that were supposed to tow or brake the church. The work was computer controlled, but manual intervention was mpossible.

After the shift, the building was stabilized and gradually rebuilt. The roof was laid, the tower was renewed and the interior was restored, not only preserving the historicist decoration of the 19th century. Century was removed, but also the basic sacral elements, especially the main baroque altar. In 1988 the work was completed and the church was reopened to the public. It was now intended to serve as an exhibition and concert venue. The relocation of the church resulted in a shift in the axis, which meant that the altar now faced south instead of east, which is why the church leadership was hesitant to rededicate the building as a church. It was consecrated again in June 1993. Today it is used both for irregular church services and as an exhibition for the North Bohemian Gallery in Litoměřice (Severočeská gallery výtvarného aroundění v Litoměřicích) with valuable late Gothic sculptures and pictures.

The church environment has been changed since 1986 over an area of ​​16.57 hectares. A new city cemetery was built behind the church in a secluded area. Between 1994 and 1995, as part of the park renovation work, a 1.83 hectare water reservoir was built, which is fed with water from the Bílina River. Recently, statues from the ruined villages of the Most district have also moved to the area surrounding the church, and a lapidarium is being built. MiniMost Park is nearby.