26.2.2010 Under the floor of the church they discovered the tomb of the vladyka

Archaeologists discovered the tombstone of the Silesian vladyk under the floor of the church in Horní Moštěnice. According to experts, the nobleman died in 1502. However, the tomb itself was probably looted by the Wallachians during the Thirty Years' War.

The grave was discovered during the reconstruction of the floor in the Church of the Assumption. About 30 centimetres of old rubble had to be removed, but the workers probed deeper and came across decomposition. Archaeologists were therefore called in and immediately began to investigate what was actually under the old floor.

They found a tombstone in the original brick floor from the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. In the year of the Lord 1502, on the Sunday before the feast of St. Simon and Jude, the noble Vladyka Jan Barský of Bašt' died and is buried here. May the Lord God have mercy on his soul.
26. 2. 2010 The tomb of the vladyk was discovered under the floor of the church.

Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a Silesian vladyk under the floor of the church in Horní Moštěnice. According to experts, the nobleman died in 1502. However, the tomb itself was probably looted by the Wallachians during the Thirty Years' War.

The grave was discovered during the reconstruction of the floor in the Church of the Assumption. About 30 centimetres of old rubble had to be removed, but the workers probed deeper and came across decomposition. Archaeologists were therefore called in and immediately began to investigate what was actually under the old floor.

They found a tombstone in the original brick floor from the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. In the year of the Lord 1502, on the Sunday before the feast of St. Simon and Jude, the noble Vladyka Jan Barský of Bašt' died and is buried here. If the Lord God will have mercy on his soul.

The tombstone was examined by experts from the Comenius Museum in Přerov. They stated that the tomb contained a member of a Silesian family that expanded in Moravia in the 15th century and was related to Horní Moštěnice. Experts later discovered that the tomb actually contained the remains of the Silesian vladyk Jan Barský of Baště.

The local parish priest Bedřich Horák expected to find graves under the floor. "They used to bury people in churches at that time, but we really had no idea that it was a member of a noble family," said the parish priest at the time.

But the tomb was empty. During the Thirty Years' War, it was probably looted by the Wallachians. They even burned down the local church. The blackened and cracked surface of the tombstone proves it. Even so, archaeologists found a rosary, pottery and several coins near the tomb.

According to archaeologist Zdeněk Schenk, one of the rarest is a small square penny from the fifteenth century, a phoenix. Then there is a silver parvus of Wenceslas II from the end of the thirteenth century, which is a coin worth a twelfth of a Prague grosz. The pottery also dates from the thirteenth century.

The existing church in Horní Moštěnice was built in 1742 and was originally surrounded by a cemetery. The church has a rectory and two side chapels.

The reconstruction was carried out between 2008 and 2010, including the aforementioned archaeological survey, during which the tomb of Vladyka Jan Barský of Baště from 1562 was found. The work was necessary because the old floor had collapsed. Archaeologists also found children's graves. This was after they uncovered a crypt in the south chapel. They said that there was once a Gothic church on the site where the Baroque church stands today.

Sources: www.denik.cz, www.hrady.cz, www.ct24.cz