Kaple svatého Kříže v lese Hájku (Chapel of St. Cross in Hájek forest)

Site Lískovec u Frýdku

History The place was named according to former archduke forest, where there was a spring well, which was a point of destination of pilgrims from basilica of the Visitation. These people believed that the water from the well has got magic power. In 1786 the forester Michal Hirschheimer erected a wooden cross at the well rising from the sidehill. The priest of Frýdek, duke Justus Vilém Pražma, had this cross sheltered. His successor Josef Karel Schipp built in 1834 today?s wooden chapel of the St. Cross and the priest Pavel Prutek had in 1840 made a stone well. The priest Karel Findinský provided for a cement water reservoir, in which the pilgrims could wash their legs, he repaired the well, and in 1871 he consecrated the chapel with Calvary statuary.

Access You can reach the chapel on the way from Frýdek-Místek to Lískovec, in Lískovec you turn to the centre of the village and continue on the 3rd class road in the direction to Sedliště. There is a bus stop at the edge of the forest ? approximately 150 meters from the chapel. The bus stop is titled ?K Hájku?.

GPS: 49°42'41.44"N,18°20'46.32"E