Telč Jesuit College

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Jesuit College in Telč (northern corner as seen from the main square)

The Jesuit college in Telč (German Teltsch ), a Czech city in Jihlava District of Olomouc region , was built from the 1651st The former college of the Jesuits is a protected cultural monument.

history

On July 26, 1651, on the initiative of Countess Franziska Slavata von Meggau , owner of Freistadt , Telč and Opařany , the foundation stone for the Jesuit college was laid. She had previously bought several houses near Telč Castle , on whose land the new building was being built.

The college for 17 to 19 people was secured by a foundation of 50,000 guilders and an agricultural farm.

In 1773 Joseph II dissolved the Jesuit order in the Habsburg monarchy . The building was used as a barracks until 1883 and then served as a girls' school and museum.

Today the building houses the Univerzitní centrum Telč branch of Brno's Masaryk University .

Building

The two-storey building in the Baroque style with three wings around an irregular courtyard stands at the western end of the market square. On the fourth side, the Jesuit church delimits the building complex, which forms the largest ensemble of buildings next to the castle .

The long corridors on the ground floor and the first floor were closed with cross vaults . The building was given its current appearance during the renovation in 1906.

Personalities

  • Vitus Scheffer (1648–1717) worked at the Teltscher Kolleg in 1680/81.
  • Adam Gilg (1653–1729), missionary, explorer and poet, lived in the college in 1684.
  • Kaspar Knittel (1644–1702), presumably also taught at the Teltscher Kolleg; died in Telsch in 1702.

See also

literature

  • Josef Hrdlička, Markéta Hrdličková, Antonín Bína: Telč. Sights in and around the city. Dobrý důvod, Telč 2007, ISBN 978-80-903546-4-7 , pp. 28-29.
  • Jiří M. Havlík, Jarmila Hlaváčková, Karl Kollermann (eds.): Order and city, orders and their benefactors (= Monastica Historia. Volume 4). Diözesanarchiv St. Pölten, St. Pölten / Prag 2019, ISBN 978-3-901863-60-8 , 491 pages (presentations based on the example of the Teltscher Kolleg at the conference of the same name in Telč from September 24 to 26, 2018).

Web links

Commons : Telč Jesuit College  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description as a cultural monument ÚSKP 42167 / 7-5249 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
  2. ↑ Sylva Řeřichová: Franziska von Meggau, nee Slawata (1610-1676). A contribution to the aristocratic history of Bohemia and Austria in the 17th century. In: Communications from the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives. Linz 1996, p. 369 (full article, p. 361–384, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
  3. ↑ Eberhard Knobloch : Knittel (Knitl), Kaspar . In Neue Deutsche Biographie 12 (1979), p. 190 URL: (digitized version)

Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 5.3 "  N , 15 ° 27 ′ 4.7"  E