Minoritský klášter v Českém Krumlově Monastery

On Krumlov Latrán, at Monastery No. 50, there is a complex called the Three Monasteries: a former Minorite monastery with the Church of the Body of God and the Virgin Mary, a monastery of clarisks and a monastery of bekens. This concentration of three Greek and semi-secular communities in a single area is quite exceptional. Today, the object is in the administration of the Knight's Order of Cruisers with a red star and serves as one of the significant cultural centers of the city with permanent exhibitions and seasonal exhibitions.

In 1350, Kateřina of Rožmberk, born from Vartenberk, became the founder of the monastery, the widow of the highest butler of the Czech Kingdom Petro of Rožmberk. The construction was not going too fast - the first minorites came to the monastery in 1357 and the convention was consecrated by the Bishop Albert of Sarajevo. The monastery church was dedicated to the body of God and the Virgin Mary. Four years later, in 1361, the first clarisky entered the neighboring female monastery. In 1375, a third community was added: the convention was occupied by heres, devout lay sisters. The Rožmberk area was generously supported by gifts and proceeds from villages and courtyards.

The construction development included late Gothic modifications between 1490 and 1500, of which roof roofs were preserved to this day. During the 17th and 18th centuries the monastery went through reconstruction in Baroque style, which imprinted its present form. The Convention of Clarisks was abolished in 1782 as part of the Yosefin reforms for emperor Joseph II. The Minorite monastery survived for more than half a century until it was violently abolished in 1950, when the Communist regime carried out its plan K.

After the cancellation, the buildings served various worldly purposes: as a military school, accommodation for officials of the court, warehouse and social apartments, until the 1990s. Parts of interiors and exteriors have become desolate. The situation was only changed by the extensive reconstruction launched in May 2014; the repaired monastery was reopened to the public on 28 November 2015. The total cost of revitalization was almost CZK 327 million and part of the building was adapted to the accommodation.

The monastery gardens have also been restored. On the Tramín are planted woods of a sad nature resembling the historical cemetery; the routes were restored in the original layout. In the courtyard there are signs of the foundations of St. Anne's Cemetery Chapel from 1555, which he had built Vilém z Rožmberka for his third wife Anna Maria Baden - the chapel was demolished in the second half of the 19th century. The main garden, the years used as a garden colony, is terratically divided and includes a part of both useful and ornamental with vineyards, hops and vegetable beds and colour plants. Behind the church of the body of God, a stone Lourdes cave with a niche for the statue of the Virgin Mary was preserved in the former kitchen garden. The area also includes an herb garden with preserved original goals, fruit orchards and renovated conical building.

In one place, the visitor will connect the medieval history of the Rozberg benefactor, the drama of the Josefini interference of monasteries and the fate of the object during the communist era - all in a carefully restored environment with open exposures and live gardens.