St. Andrew's Chapel.

In the second courtyard of the castle Hukvaldy left the bishop of Olomouc František Ditrichštejn (the bishop was in the years 1594-1636) the build chapel of St. Andrew in the year 1602.

The role of Bishop’s role as the builder is here reminded by its heraldry above the entrance to the chapel and on the main altar in the interior. Chapel replaced the old house chapel, which was located In the Renaissance Palace. From the beginning was allocated to the Rychaltice Church of St. Nicholas. Parish Priest from Rychaltic had to serve the Holy Mass for the estates, a Castle Chaplain only for Convicts and prisoners. 

St. Andrew's Chapel is also the only structure that has been preserved almost in its original form.

Today is the interior of the chapel very modest, but the furniture is probably not very different from the original form of the late 17th. century. The interior of the chapel is vaulted with barrel vaulted with steady slices, in which there are semicircular windows, two in the west and one in the east. On the side altar is a picture of St. Rozálie. On the walls are the old paintings-on the epistle side it is St. Jerome and SV. Family, on the side of gospel St. John of Nepomuk, 2 signs of Bishops and Marian column.

The main dominant point in the chapel is probably created by two altars, the main, consecrated St. Ondřej and the side altar of St. Barbara, and an embossed pulpit. A set of three early Baroque wooden benches, recorded in the records, stood at the walls of the ship. Today there is no longer here, as well as a number of other minor objects, and the benches are replaced. Both altars, which include paintings by Antonín Martina Lublin (1636-1690), were created by the Italian plasterer Baldassare Fontana (1661-1733), who is also the author of the pulpit.

When it was built Church of St. Maximilian in the village bellow the castle, there were here installed an image of the castle chapel, which the archbishop of Fürstenberg had to later bring to Olomouc.

The municipal Chronicle in 1931 records that two thieves broke into the chapel, damaging Tabernacle and took with the Towers bell.

A similar structure, created by the initiative of Karel Z Lichtenstein-Castelcorna, which can be compared with the castle chapel on Hukvaldy, is the Church of St. Margaret at the Castle peace.

The castle also hosts a St. Andrew pilgrimage every year.

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