RELIGIOUS MONUMENTS

The original church as well as all historical buildings and sights preserved from older days were destroyed in 1742 when almost all the small town, including the church, burnt down. Official record books and the church registry books were also destroyed.

The church of Sv. Martin is of Roman origin and dates back approximately to the 13^th century.  Not long prior to this the Castle of Český Šternberk was established not far from here, to the estate of which the settlement belonged.

In approximately the first half of the fourteenth century, a church consisting of  a right angled presbytery and an oblong nave was built.  A prismatic tower was added to the western front wall probably later, the right angled sacristy in the axis of the presbytery is even later.

The synagogue in Šternberská St is first mentioned as a new building in 1854 –1855. It is an untraditional, late-Classicist or Imperial building having a similar features as the synagogues in Benešov (1845), Nové Strašecí (1856) or Vodňany (1852).  There were semi-circular windows in the ground-floor and circular ones above them, 3 in the west front, 4 in the side walls and 3 in the apses (walled-up today), thus it was a very backlit building.

The cemetery is situated about 2 km north-east from the town of Divišov, by the crossroad to Mněnchov and Šternov, today in a field over a highway, at the cadastral area of Měchnov. In 1776, upon a permission of the church and secular authorities the Divišov Jewish community asked for lease of a plot of land belonging to Michal Čejka of Olbraomovice to whom they paid 200 golden coins for the plot of land and the cemetery wall whereas the lease was set for 12 golden coins per year.