On the old town hall beside the pointed turret is the figure of the so-called Roland with a club. On a nave pillar in the Church of All Saints is a Rococo altar of the Black Mother of God, made of artificial marble and carrying a painting dated 1758. On the west side of the square, on the façade of the Black Eagle House, also called the Royal Castle and built in the 16th century by the burgher Aulik of Třebenice, is an allegorical stone relief near the second-floor windows. A dragon with a gaping toothed mouth and enormous paws carries a child on its back, wrapped in the monster’s tail. A naked, long-haired giant armed with a broken branch hurries towards the dragon, carrying his club on his left shoulder. An animal with a dog’s head and a lion’s mane runs ahead of the giant to help him fight the dragon in a fierce struggle.
Location and map
- Place
- Litoměřice
- Municipality / starting point
- Litoměřice
- District / region
- Not stated in the sources
- Country
- Not specified in the sources
- Distance and direction
- 26 km SE of Ústí nad Labem
On the old town hall beside the pointed turret is the figure of the so-called Roland with a club. On a nave pillar in the Church of All Saints is a Rococo altar of the Black Mother of God, made of artificial marble and carrying a painting dated 1758. On the west side of the square, on the façade of the Black Eagle House, also called the Royal Castle and…
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 208
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.