HOLY TRINITY - it is situated on the spot where, in 1490, according to tradition , a legendary “tub maker” first noticed the autochthonous mercury, which was washed out from layers of carbon slate by spring. The first wooden chapel was erected in 1500, the Church of the Holy Trinity was renovated and embellished in the first part of the 17th century. In 1629, the master mason, Anton Knez, created a Late Gothic, ribbed, and fan-vaulted presbytery with rosette joints and pointed windows adorned with spherically shaped stone ornaments. The baroque nave was equipped with lateral “golden “ altars in 1668, and the central image in the main altar, Coronation of the Virgin by the Holy Trinity, was painted by Carl von Reslfeld in 1703. Idrija’s Municipality had it refurbished in the years 1981-1984 after designs by the architect France Kvaternik. The presbytery is embellished by stained windows designed by Lojze Čemažar, a painter who has united Biblical and Idrijan topics in an evocative manner. Objects like metal ore, a miner’s point (drill), and a carbide (eternal) lamp have thus been granted the role of eloquent symbols.
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