ÖZKD LXXVIII 2024 Heft 1, pp. 60-67, 2024/11/15
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
In Nezamyslice, next to Church of the Assumption of Mary, stands the Erasmus Chapel, which was founded in the first half of the seventeenth century. In 1707–1708, the Cardinal and Prince-Bishop of Passau, Johann Philipp von Lamberg, purchased the estate; the Austrian House of Lamberg later set up its family tomb in the chapel. In the 1850s, Gustav Joachim von Lamberg had an ensemble of Renaissance gravestones and epitaphs of his forebears from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries transferred from the cancelled cemetery at Kirche St. Peter in Salzburg to his estate, which was later moved to the Erasmus Chapel. By doing so, he rescued not only significant works
specific to sepulchral sculpture, but also praised the long continuity of his house. The transport of the Salzburg
family gravestone to Bohemia is not only an interesting cultural and historical phenomenon but also enriches the view of the Austrian–Bavarian production of sepulchral works in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.