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Built in 1888 based on a collection of benefactors of this village. The builder of the chapel was Albert Buchberger with assistants Johann Goder and Wenzel Renner. At the time when the chapel was built, Pec pod Sněžkou was not a tourist village, but a village of miners, woodworkers, coal miners and smugglers. During the consecration ceremony, the patriarch of Velkóup encouraged the citizens to rebuild their homes for summer stays of tourists and thereby improve their living conditions. This marked the beginning of a new stage for the citizens and the municipality itself. At the time of its construction, the chapel was not as conspicuous as it is now. It stood behind a dilapidated arsenic smelter or "poison hut". It wasn't until 1930, after the poison hut was demolished, that the chapel appeared in its full glory. In 1933, the chapel was renovated, during the repair a box with 14 images of the Way of the Cross was found. (The chapel is open in summer)