Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

The Gothic church was built after the city's fire in 1515 according to plans by Rejt's student Jakub Heilmann of Schweinfurt on the site of an early Gothic basilica. The construction of the new church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, began in 1517 and lasted until the early 17th century. It is a large hall church with three naves and so-called pulled-in pillars that delimit the space of the individual surrounding chapels in the church's interior and articulate the gallery walkway, adorned with polychrome Renaissance reliefs depicting biblical scenes. From the older church, only the crypt has been preserved to this day.

In the second quarter of the 18th century, the eastern choir was closed off by a monumental main altar, supplemented in the 1770s with larger-than-life statues by Tyrolean sculptor Bartoloměj Eder and paintings by Jesuit painter Josef Kramolín. The counterpart to the altar became the large organ in the western part of the gallery, and visually connecting them is a group of statues of Christ and the apostles by Lobkowicz sculptor Jan Adam Dietz from the 1730s, installed on the inner side of the nave pillars at the height of the gallery. The original project of the church builders changed gradually in the spirit of new ideas until, in the final symbiosis, late Gothic and Renaissance sensibilities were adopted both in the monumental architecture and in its details.