Milevsko Monastery

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Romanesque monastery church
patio
Aerial photo 2008
The monastery

The Milevsko Monastery (older spelling: Milewsk ; German: Mühlhausen Monastery ; Latin: Mileuz ) is a Premonstratensian monastery in the village of the same name Milevsko in Okres Písek in the Czech Republic .

history

The Milevsko monastery was founded by Georg von Mühlhausen ( Jiři z Milevska ) and populated from 1184–1187 by Premonstratensians from the Seelau monastery . Gerlach ( Jarloch ), who came from the Rhineland and died in 1228 , became the first abbot in 1187 . He built the three-aisled Romanesque monastery church "Mariä Visitation", which was extended at the end of the 13th century by a transept and a five-sided choir.

The monastery experienced its greatest heyday in the 14th century, when the Latin monastery school was founded. At that time, the monastery owned over 60 villages. Its economic position results from a document issued on February 13, 1257 in the Lateran . In it, Pope Alexander IV grants the faithful of the dioceses of Passau , Prague and Regensburg indulgences of 100 days if they help the abbot of Mühlhausen ( Mileuz ) to set up the Schlägl monastery . Accordingly, Mühlhausen performed the function of a mother monastery for Schlägl, for which it was presumably determined by the general chapter after 1251. Schlägl was explicitly mentioned as a daughter monastery of Mühlhausen only in 1307, when the Mühlhausen convent established a fraternity and prayer fraternity with the Schlägler convent. In the same year, Bishop Bernhard von Prambach from Passau called on the General Chapter of the Premonstratensian Order to subordinate Schlägl Abbey to Osterhofen Abbey .

On April 23, 1420 the monastery was destroyed by the Hussites . Abbot Svatomir fled to Klingenberg , from where he wrote a letter dated August 28, 1420 , asking Reinprecht von Walsee , the captain of the land above the Enns , to order a visit to Schlägl because he was unable to do so himself due to the destruction of his pen be.

In 1437 the monastery property came to Ulrich II von Rosenberg , who linked it to the Klingenberg pledge. In 1473 the Lords of Schwanberg bought the property. In 1575 the monastery was closed and the monastery complex was sold to Christoph von Schwanberg. In the same year, he sold several villages to Bohuslav Kalenitzky von Kalenitz on Chřešťovice, who connected them to the allodial estate Veselíčko . Under the Hodějovský von Hodějov the entire monastery complex was converted into a manor house. After the Hodějovský were expropriated after the Battle of White Mountain because of their participation in the Bohemian uprising , the former monastery properties came to Strahov Monastery in 1623 . The monastery was then re-established and the monastery church was given a baroque style. In 1785 the monastery was abolished as part of the Josephine reforms . The rule of Mühlhausen remained in the possession of the Strahov monastery until the abolition of patrimonial rule in 1848.

After the political change in 1989, the Premonstratensians got the monastery buildings back. A local museum is located in the former prelature.

Abbots

  • 1184-1238 Gerlach
  • ~ 1285 Heinrich
  • ~ 1307 Herrmann ( Hoyco )
  • 1327-1355 Mrakota
  • 1355–1365 Nicholas
  • 1383–1405 Francis of Vepice
  • 1405-1423 Svatomir
  • 1423–1434 Peter III.
  • 1493-1499 Bartholomew
  • ~ 1543 Johann

literature

Web links

Commons : Milevsko Monastery  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.obecveselicko.cz/z-dejin-obce/
  2. ↑ Joseph Kytka: Milevsko a jeho kraj: turistika, památky, history , Milevsko: Nákladem odboru klubu českých turistů, 1940
  3. ↑ Documented in 1306 under Branice (Czech Republic) .
  4. ↑ Documented for 1543 under Zběšičky .

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '22 .8 "  N , 14 ° 22' 5.1"  E