Velehrad Monastery
| Velehrad Monastery | |
|---|---|
_1.jpg) Basilica of the Assumption |
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| location |
 Czech Republic Moravia Zlínský kraj |
| Coordinates: | 49 ° 6 '12.4 " N , 17 ° 23' 44.5" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
547 |
| founding year | 1205 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1784 |
| Year of repopulation | 1890 and 1990 ( Jesuits ) |
| Year of re-dissolution | 1950 |
| Mother monastery | Plasy Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
Smilheim Monastery (1261) |
The Velehrad Monastery in Velehrad in the Czech Republic was the oldest Cistercian monastery in Moravia and is still an important place of pilgrimage today .
history
The Convention of Velehrad was at the initiative of the Bishop of Olomouc in 1205 Robert of England , with the support of the Moravian Margrave Ladislaus Henry , brother of King Otakar I founded. It was the first Cistercian monastery in Moravia and was then settled with twelve friars from the Plasy ( Plaß ) monastery . Velehrad settled in the Smilheim monastery itself .
The five-aisled Romanesque monastery church "Assumption of Mary" was inaugurated in 1228. With a length of one hundred meters, it was one of the largest church buildings in the Kingdom of Bohemia at that time.
During the Hussite wars attacked the Hussites on January 12, 1421 from the Castle Ostroh , which owned the Hašek of Wallenstein was the monastery Velehrad and burned it. It was then rebuilt and structurally changed several times. At the end of the 17th century it was redesigned in the Baroque style under the direction of Giovanni Pietro Tencalla .
In the course of the Josephine reforms , the monastery was closed in 1784. The monastery church initially served as a village church and was later left to decay. The monastery buildings were used for other purposes.
The monastery was restored in the second half of the 19th century. In 1890 the Jesuits took it under their care. The church was founded by Pope Pius XI. on January 25, 1928, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary celebration, elevated to the status of Basilica minor . During the communist regime, the monastery was again dissolved in 1950 and returned to the Jesuits after the Velvet Revolution in 1990. In the same year Pope John Paul II visited the monastery. On this occasion he referred to the importance of the Slav apostles Cyril and Method .
literature
- Tezelin Halusa : The martyrdom of the Cistercian monks in Welehrad. In: Cistercian Chronicle . Volume 9, 1897, pp. 13-16.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 1087-1088.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bazilika Nanebevzetí Panny Marie a sv. Cyrila a Metoděje. Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin and Sts. Cyril and Methodius at gcatholic.org, accessed June 7, 2019.
Web links
- Bazilika Velehrad on the parish homepage (in Czech).