Pustiměř Monastery
The former Benedictine monastery Pustiměř (Czech Klášter Pustiměř , German Monastery Pustimir ) was located in the place of the same name Pustiměř in Moravia . It existed from 1340 to 1588.
history
On September 30, 1340, the Olomouc bishop Jan Volek founded a Benedictine monastery at the St. Pantaleon rotunda in Pustomirz, which has been documented since 1247 and which belonged to the estates of the diocese . It is dedicated to Ad infantiam Salvatoris et beatae Mariae ( The childhood of the Savior and the Blessed Virgin Mary ). Bishop Jan Volek was an illegitimate son of the Bohemian King Wenceslaus II and the foundation was made in honor and for the salvation of Wenceslas II's daughter Elisabeth, who died in 1330 . She was the last Přemyslidin to be born in wedlock and was crowned Queen of Bohemia in 1311 after her marriage to John of Luxembourg . Their son, Margrave Charles IV at the time, who was also a step-nephew of Bishop Jan Volek, participated in the foundation by assigning further lands to the monastery. The monastery documents that have been preserved are attested several times by Wok I. von Holstein ( Vok I. z Holštejna ), who accompanied Bishop Jan Volek on his travels to Prague.
The first abbess of the monastery was Elisabeth ( Alžběta Přemyslovna , † 1347), an illegitimate daughter of the Bohemian King Wenceslaus III. Other abbesses were among others 1356-1377 Hilaria and 1383-1400 Jutta. During the dispute over supremacy in Moravia, Bishop Nikolaus von Riesenburg was forced to transfer part of Pustomirz and the episcopal castle Meilitz ( Melice ) as a fiefdom to the Margrave Jost . The monastery was damaged during the Hussite Wars . After the end of the war, the then abbess Elisabeth succeeded in regaining the possessions belonging to the monastery. During the Reformation , the monastery experienced an economic decline. In 1577 it was given to the Dominican Sisters of Brno , who joined the Benedictine Order in 1581 with papal approval. In 1588 the monastery was finally closed. The associated lands were added to the episcopal rule of Wischau and the monastery buildings were left to decay. During the Thirty Years War, the monastery buildings were completely destroyed by the Swedes in 1644. On the site of the monastery, the St. Anna Chapel and the Church of St. Benedict erected. Parts of the original rotunda of St. Pantaleon are preserved.
The founder of the monastery, Bishop Jan Volek, was buried in the former monastery church after his death in 1351.
literature
- Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , p. 504.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 33 ″ N , 17 ° 1 ′ 48 ″ E