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4. Roman Catholic Church of St. Ann

     The single-nave baroque building of rectangular groundplan with a polygonal-end presbytery was built during 1685 through 1687. The tower at the western face was built in 1706, the sacristy in 1842. The church was fairly often being repaired and modified in a historic style (Neo-Renaissance) in the 19th century. The church is not being used for its purpose, it is waiting for thorough restoration.
    It is a significant symbol of the town's history. The church and its surroundings make up Jablonec's historic center - it used to neighbor with Jablonec's first cemetery and Jablonec's original timbered hospital used to stand nearby. The Marian statue in front of the church is worth noticing and there is a sand-stone cross of reconciliation, about a meter tall, from 1666 at its wall. There is a former parsonage from the beginning of the 18th century with Neo-Renaissance exterior from the end of the 19th century opposite the church (1/6 Kostelní Street). A sculpture from the Getseman Garden dating back to 1829 was moved to the parsonage in the 1960s. It was made at an instigation of Ferdinand Hübner and his son, yarn merchants, and it had originally stood in the village of Rádlo. Not far from the parsonage, in U Zeleného Stromu Street, a tablet with the town's emblem can be found. It draws attention to a legend on the rise of the Jablonec settlement: there used to be the popular U Zeleného Stromu (At Green Tree) Stage in that location. People began settling around it and thus Jablonec came to existence gradually.