Jesuit College (Český Krumlov)

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Jesuit college on the Vltava in Krumau

The Jesuit college in Český Krumlov (German Krumlov ), a city in the region Jihočeský kraj (South Bohemia) in the Czech Republic , was a college of the Jesuits , which was 1588-1773. The building has been a listed building since May 3, 1958. Today it is a high-class hotel.

history

Hotel Růže

Wilhelm von Rosenberg called the Jesuits to Krumau in order to set up a higher school system in the city. Alexander Vojt, Rector of the Clementinum in Prague , drafted the plans for the college that Baldassare Maggi built in 1586–1588 after demolishing six medieval townhouses. The beams and boards required for this were rafted down the Vltava by loggers from Rožmberk and Loučovice , the lime came from Chvalšiny , nails, sheet metal and iron were delivered from the Austrian Freistadt .

To be able to get to the Jesuit gardens on the other bank of the Vltava, a suspension bridge was built in 1591 , which was destroyed by a storm in 1638. In 1663 a covered wooden bridge was built, which can be seen on old cityscapes. After the monastery was dissolved in 1773, the bridge was auctioned off and removed.

The originally planned college church was not built, but Wilhelm von Rosenburg left the St. Vitus Church to the Jesuits . In 1601, a covered one-story corridor the width of "four men" was carved into the rock behind the neighboring prelature in order to be able to get directly from the Jesuit college to the church of St. Vitus.

After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773, the building was used as a barracks until 1887. In 1889 the Czech Sparkasse acquired the former college and opened the Hotel Růže ("Hotel Rose"), to which in 1906 the theater wing was added. In the 1960s the hotel was closed due to dilapidation, and from 1980–1991 it was extensively restored and reopened.

Building description

The four-wing, three-storey building is on the street and in the oblong courtyard with Renaissance - sgraffito decorated. A spiral staircase leads to the former theater hall.

On the facade of the inner courtyard are the coats of arms of the Lords of Rosenberg and the Lords of Pernstein ( Polyxena von Pernstein-Lobkowicz was the fourth wife of Wilhelm von Rosenberg) as well as the symbol of the Jesuit order.

Furnishing

The baroque pharmacy from the middle of the 17th century was sold to John I von Schwarzenberg after the Jesuit order was abolished and is now a permanent exhibition in the Regional Museum of Českém Krumlově ( Regionální muzeum v Českém Krumlově ).

Personalities

  • The most famous professor of the college was Bohuslav Balbín (1621–1688).
  • The Jesuit Kaspar Knittel (1644–1702) taught at this Jesuit college, among other things.
  • The pharmacist and botanist Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706), after whom the plant species camellia is named, worked from January 1686 to April 1987 in the college's pharmacy.

See also

literature

  • Pavel Vlček: Český Krumlov. Historické center. Series České dědictí UNESCO. 2016, pp. 129–131 (Czech, also English edition available).

Web links

Commons : Jesuit College (Český Krumlov)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jezuitská kolej ÚSKP 20980 / 3-965 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Horní No. 154 . In: Online encyclopedia encyklopedie.ckrumlov.cz about Krummau (former Jesuit college in “Oberstraße 154”).
  3. ↑ Barokní Jezuitská lékárna. In: muzeumck.cz. Retrieved April 13, 2020 (Czech).

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 37.1 ″  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 1.9 ″  E