Prague 1996 St. Kutna Hora St. Barbara Church Part 3

St. Barbara Church (often incorrectly St. Barbara Cathedral, Czech: Chrám svaté Barbory) in Kutná Hora (Bohemia) is one of the most famous Gothic churches in central Europe and is a world heritage site. Its first architect is claimed to have been Johann Parler.

The construction began in 1388, but work on the cathedral was interrupted several times, making the final work completed in 1905.

Kutna Hora began in 1142 with the settlement of the first Cistercian Monastary in Bohemia, Kloster Sedlitz, brought from the reichsunmittelbar Cistercian Imperial Waldsassen Abbey. By 1260 German miners began to mine for silver in the mountain region, which they named Kuttenberg, and which was part of the monastery property. The name of the mountain is said to have arrived from the miners workclothes garb (the Kutten). Under Abt Heinrich Heidenreich the territory greatly advanced due to the silver mines which gained importance during the economic boom of the 13th century.

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