Chotěšov Monastery
Chotěšov Monastery (German Chotieschau ) is a former Premonstratensian monastery in Chotěšov , about 18 km southwest of Pilsen in the Pilsen-South district in the Czech Republic .
According to tradition, the Roman Catholic monastery was founded in the years 1202 to 1210 by the blessed Hroznata von Ovenec and, as the center of a manorial rule, quickly gained wealth and influence. This aroused the envy of the owners of the neighborhood. During the wars of the Hussite reform movement , the monastery was looted and burned down in 1421 by a Hussite army group under Jan Žižka . It survived the Thirty Years War with further billeting, devastation and harassment by troops.
During the Baroque and Recatholization period in Bohemia , the Chotieschau Monastery was again extensively rebuilt as a mansion for a manor based on plans by Jakob Auguston until 1756, but was dissolved in 1782 in the course of the Josephine reforms in favor of a religious fund. Administrators managed the property and its income. In 1822 Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis acquired the rule of Chotieschau. At the end of the 19th century, Sisters of the Salesian Sisters settled in the monastery and built a girls' school with boarding school. In 1945 after the end of the Second World War, the sisters had to leave the monastery, which became state property. In 1993 the community tried to save the monastery buildings, which were threatened with decay.
In summer 2007 the Junge Landestheater Bayern staged the German-Czech coproduction of the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare as a cross-border project as a contribution to an international theater festival in Pilsen .
literature
Robert Christoph Köpl, canon of the Norbertine of Teplá and pastor in Staab: The former Premonstratensian choir Female pen Chotieschau in Pilsner circles Bohemia. Prague, printed by Thomas Thabor, 1840 ( e-copy ).
Web links
- Website of the citizens' association (cz / de / en)
- Information about the monastery (de)
Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '8.4 " N , 13 ° 11' 54.3" E