The chapel of  St Rok in Podgrađe was built by the Bolle's projects at the same time when the church in Maija Bisrtica was built and it stands on the place of the baroque chapel which had been  built in 1727. This is interesting for us because a love legend is related to its construction.
"Antun Kirschhofer, a violin virtuoso, a music professor, a conductor and a composer, is often mentioned in the biographies of Lisinski, Wisner and the others. His name is written in bold letters in  Zagreb's and Croatia's  musical history. He was born in Budapest in 1807. and died very young.
Kirschhofer came to Zagreb looking for a job in spring of 1829. After the opening of the Musical School in Zagreb, he was appointed to that schoolas as violin teacher. He got the musical education  in a private musical school of  count Brunswick who was Beethoven's friend. In that time, the nobility lived between summer and autumn in their castles in Zagorje, and in the beginning of  winter they returned to their palaces in Zagreb where they spent their days on concerts, parties, in the theatre, and many of the rich aristocrats occasionally gave receptions with concerts in their saloons. The good musicians were often invited on those private concerts and in that way they increased their small incomes. Antun Kirschhofer was a very appreciated artist and he was a gladly seen musician in many respectable feudal palaces. It is not only his skill of playing, but as the critcs say, his handsomeness of a prince from girls' dreams that opened the doors of the saloons. He often held concerts in the palace of  Donat Mauricije Sermage de Somsedvar ( Susedgrad ) in Opatička Street. The count family of the Sermages was also the owner of a great castle in Oroslavlje and of an estate in Podgrađe.
Kirschhofer played not only on the concerts in the Sermage's palace, but he also gave  piano lessons to his daughter, countess Carolina who fell in love with her teacher. The caste differences between a poor violinist with 200 forints of a year's salary and a real countess were too big, so father Donat sent his daughter in exile to Podgrađe, in hope that «far from the heart, far from the mind» Karolina will forget her piano player.
In the mean time, Kirschhofer should have been  engaged on the court of the duchess Lucca who was a very beautiful and  seductive woman.
In spite of everything, Kirschhofer stayed true to his countess so that even the great distance could not take apart the lovers. They were still meeting each other by the chapel of St Andrija in Laz in the presence of the countess' maid, of course. Countess Karolina had to walk from Podgrađe to Laz an hour and a half and Kirschhofer needed a great deal of time from Zagreb, over the Zagrebačka Mountain, although some chronicles claim that he drove with the post carriage one part of the road, and the other he walked.
Those mountain walks were probably, in time, too much for Kirschhofer, so he applied for a job at school in Rijeka, in which he did not succeed because of his appearance «which could be dangerous for many female students of the school», so he continued to play in Zagreb and to go for the long walks to Marija Bistrica until 1844. when count Sermage died and the mother countess let her daughter, already an old maiden, to marry  the violinist. For her dowry the countess got the estate in Podgrađe in which she spent so many years of her exhile, in her pilgrimages to the Laz chapel. The happiness of the two people did not last long because Kirschhofer soon got tuberculosis and died 25th  February 1849. His widow outlived him by 31 years, and she built a chapel in Podgrađe in his memory where he was buried and where is his tombstone."
Kirschhofer did not stay in the history of our musical culture only because of his romantic love. He takes a high place among the creators of the Croatian musical culture; he was our first concert violin player; as a conductor he conducted Haydn's oratorio  and Weber's opera; he raised a number of great musicians: Franjo Pokorni, Antun Švarc, Silvije Medunić, Mija Hajko, Eduard Fink; he stood out as a composer, composing for the violin and  scene music. His well- known composition is "Innocence and Love" for which is assumed that it is the intimate confession of a composer and violinist in love.
Although he was born and raised in Hungary, he accepted Zagreb and Croatia as his second fatherland and showed a very correct standpoint in a difficult time when the Hungarians were in Zagreb in a great political offensive. In that spirit he conducted a concert in "Streljane Hall" in Zagreb on which Sidonija Rubido Erdedy sang, for the first time in the Croatian language, one of the songs of Ilirci by Ferdo Livadić.