During the Hussite period, the monks of Mnichovo Hradiště decided to hide their order’s treasure. They melted golden objects and made a golden hen. At night they took it to their farm at Kotel, now part of Osečná, and lowered the great statue into a well. Local people allegedly later found and lifted it, but it apparently covered a spring: the well filled with water, the statue slipped and still rests somewhere in the mud.
WHERE TO FIND THE PLACE
Location and map
- Place
- Osečná
- Municipality / starting point
- Osečná
- District / region
- Liberec
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 7 km NW of Českého Dubu
Approximate location on the map
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SOURCES OF THE STORY
Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 246
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.