Nepomuk Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Nepomuk | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Czech Republic Bohemia
|
| Coordinates: | 49 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
207 |
| founding year | 1145 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1558 |
| Mother monastery | Ebrach Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
Svaté Pole Monastery (1149 or 1157) |
The Nepomuk (Pomuk) Monastery is a former Cistercian abbey in Bohemia ( Czech Republic ). It was located in Klášter , around 2 km north of the town of Nepomuk , in the Pilsen region in the Okres Plzeň-jih , on the left bank of the Úslava River and at the foot of the Green Mountain ( Zelená hora , 536 m).
history
The monastery, founded in 1145, was the fourth subsidiary of Ebrach Monastery in Franconia from the filiation of the Morimond Primary Abbey . The monastery of Nepomuk was the founding subsidiary of Svaté Pole Monastery (Heiligenfeld, possibly 1157, filiation unclear, possibly also Hradiště Monastery ) and Žďár Monastery ( Žďár nad Sázavou - Saar, 1252). A participation of Duke Vladislav II in the establishment is considered likely. An abbot Konrad is recorded for 1177, an abbot Hermannus in 1188 and an abbot Berchtold for 1252. For the year 1199 the later Olomouc Bishop Robert is proven as prior of the Nepomuk Monastery. During the Hussite Wars, the monastery was stormed and burned down in 1420. Emperor Sigismund then pledged the monastery property to Bohuslav and Hynek Krušina von Schwanberg , who was required to take care of the abbot and eight other monks. The rule Grünberg arose from the monastery property . The monastery property that had previously been pledged to the von Sternberg family was finally transferred to this family in 1558; so the monastery ended. The village of Klášter was established on its site; Material from the monastery was used to build the 46 properties in 1789. In 1665 the ruins of St. Margaret's Church are mentioned, which probably had a polygonal choir.
Buildings and plant
Remnants of the medieval buildings have been built in the present-day village of Klášter, without the entire complex being recognizable, such as a Romanesque facade and a two-story wall section with a passage at house no.39 near the street coming from the south and crossing Úslava (possibly abbot's apartment, Guest house or hospital) as well as another single-storey wall section with Gothic window openings as the remainder of a building probably from the 2nd quarter of the 13th century in the area of today's southern churchyard wall. Next to it there is a beautiful Romanesque-Gothic portal with a convex arched frieze, probably from around 1230. a. in the area of the monastery mill. Parts of the monastery wall have also been preserved. Various spolia can be found in the museums in Nepomuk and Blovice .
literature
- Jiři Kuthan: The medieval architecture of the Cistercians in Bohemia and Moravia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 1982, pp. 71 ff., ISBN 3-422-00738-5 .
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 1075f.