Calvary according to the visitation from 1781 was built by the castle estate and mentions the stops leading from the castle to Calvary, which are not yet completely finished. The statues of the five stops on separate pedestals represented Christ's farewell to his mother, Christ on the Mount of Olives (with the companion angel on a separate pedestal), the Scourging of Christ, the Crowning of Christ with Thorns, and The Carrying of the Cross. In the 1960s, they were severely damaged by vandals, except for the 1st and 5th stops. In the first half of the 1970s, they were then restored by Dana Salamonová in an existing torsional state. Out of fear of further damage, they were left in the chapel and later exhibited in the lapidary of the castle.
In 1991, according to the damaged originals, they made torsional copies of artificial stone. Because of the great damage to the statue of the scourged Christ, they did not even make a copy of it. Copies of the complete 1st and 5th stops were placed in the original places of the pedestals. On the other three free pedestals (one was removed in the meantime), they mounted torsos of the Coronation, Christ on the Mount of Olives and an angel on the Mount of Olives.
Before the planned restoration of Calvary in 2016, photo documentation from 1954 was discovered. According to the photographs, new complete reconstruction copies of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th stops were made and in August 2017 they were installed on Kalvárská cesta in the correct order. For the statue of Christ on the Mount of Olives, it was necessary to make a replica of the removed pedestal.
In about 1991, the statues of the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist in the group of the Crucifixion. After 2010, their originals were exhibited in the exterior castle premises, similarly to the previously installed sculptures from the farewell of Christ. The remaining torsos of the originals and their copies are also exhibited in the castle interior.
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