The local estate owner made a pilgrimage to the well-known Bavarian sanctuary of Öttingen on the Inn in thanks for surviving a storm. She later commissioned a copy of its Black Madonna and placed it in a newly built chapel in 1662. She named the village that grew around it Nový Etynk, and pilgrimages came to the image.
Location and map
- Place
- Nová Včelnice
- Municipality / starting point
- Nová Včelnice
- District / region
- Jindřichův Hradec
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 12 km NE of Jindřichova Hradce
The local estate owner made a pilgrimage to the well-known Bavarian sanctuary of Öttingen on the Inn in thanks for surviving a storm. She later commissioned a copy of its Black Madonna and placed it in a newly built chapel in 1662. She named the village that grew around it Nový Etynk, and pilgrimages came to the image.
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Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 238
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.