Ovčí vrch (Schafberg) went down in history as the site of the Peasants' Revolt. At the end of the 17th century, peasant revolts against corvée service broke out in several places in Bohemia. At that time, the owner of the estate, Count Krystof von Heissenstein, settled at the castle in Bezdružice, to whom the peasants renounced their obedience. Afterwards, under the leadership of the peasant Hans Muck von Zhořec (Hurz), they went to Ovčí vrch to defy the punitive expedition. They had fortified themselves here, but were unable to withstand the attack of numerically superior, well-armed cuirassiers, which began on May 8, 1680, and continued the following day. They were crushed, and 49 people remained dead and 20 seriously wounded at Ovčí vrch. It is not uninteresting, however, that General Krystof Harant, nephew of Krystof Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice, played a significant role in suppressing the uprising and subsequently punishing the rebels.
Countess Marie von Heissenstein, in order to free herself from the pangs of conscience, had a penitential chapel built on Ovčí Vrch in memory of the murdered peasants. The early Baroque chapel, dating from the late 17th century, was restored by Prince Konstantin Löwenstein in 1906. The original Baroque polychrome statuary of Christ on the Mount of Olives was destroyed in the 1960s.
A stone monument made of basalt from Hradiště was erected next to the chapel to commemorate the Peasants' Uprising. It was unveiled on July 12, 1936.
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