History of the monastery The monastery was founded in the 13th century after Ottokar I of Bohemia donated the local estate to the monks of the Order of St. Benedict. In
The appearance of the monastery we see today is the result of renovation work carried out during the High Baroque period. In 1726, Abbot Zinke approved the complete demolition
The Church of St. Procopius in Bezděkov was built in 1724-27 according to the project of Kilian Ignác Dienzenhofer. The village of Bezděkov is the only one that is no longer
The original church in Božanov is mentioned in the oldest sources as early as the 14th century and was dedicated to St. Bartholomew. The construction of the new church of St.
As early as the 14th century, a wooden church of St. John the Evangelist stood in the centre of the village, on the site of which a neo-Gothic
The Church of All Saints stands on a slight hill in the middle of the cemetery above the village and dominates the surrounding landscape. Since the 14th century there was
The original wooden church in Vižňov is mentioned in the oldest sources as early as the first half of the 14th century. Until the Thirty Years' War it was a
Originally, a wooden chapel stood on the site of St. Barbara's Church. The surviving building accounts show that the construction of the new church, designed by Kryštof Dientzenhofer,
The church was founded by Abbot Martin I and built in 1253-1294, together with the Benedictine monastery in Břevnov. It was built in the Cistercian-Burgundian style, in the