Třeboň monastery
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The Třeboň Monastery is a former monastery of the Augustinian Canons in the town of the same name Třeboň ( Wittingau ) in southern Bohemia .
history
After the Lords of Rosenberg acquired Wittingau in 1366, they founded an Augustinian Canons' Monastery in the city in 1367 with the support of Raudnitz Monastery . As a monastery church, they gave the monastery the Aegidius Church, which is first recorded for the year 1280. It was then rebuilt as a two-aisled hall church and famous for its Gothic furnishings. The main altar with the Gothic panel painting was created by the "Master of Wittingau" at the end of the 14th century. After the church had been redesigned in the Baroque style in 1781, the original cycle of pictures of the Gothic altar was distributed to the surrounding churches. Individual panels are now in the Prague National Gallery.
The monastery buildings and the cloister were built in 1367-1384. In 1389 the monastery, which until then had been subordinate to the Raudnitz mother monastery, received its own abbot. The monastery was equipped with a rich library and operated an important scriptorium and a Latin school. In 1493 Benedikt von Waldstein , Bishop of Cammin, gave the monastery a richly illustrated breviary.
In 1567 the monastery , which was run down during the Reformation, was secularized . In the course of the Counter Reformation it was reopened under the rule of the Habsburgs in 1631, but did not regain its former importance. The holdings of the monastery library were brought to Prague during the Thirty Years War , where they were stolen by the Swedes and taken to Stockholm. From 1631 it was under the monastery of Klosterneuburg . During this time it was managed by administrators . It was not until 1663 that Norbert Heermann was appointed provost. After his death in 1699 he was buried in front of the altar of the collegiate church.
As part of the Josephine reforms , the monastery was finally dissolved in 1785. The monastery buildings and the monastery property acquired in 1787 Johann I. Prince of Schwarzenberg .
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 , pp. 666-668.
- Erhard Gorys : DuMont art travel guide Czech Republic. Culture, landscape and history in Bohemia and Moravia. DuMont, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7701-2844-3 , pp. 165-167.