| Description: | Originally a premonstratensian monastery founded in 1190 by Count Konrad Otto. For centuries the massive monastery complex was an important centre of far more than cultural life in southern Moravia. After being hit by fate several times in the form of destructive wars, in 1784 came the last definitive blow – the dissolution of the monastery because of the religious reforms of Emperor Joseph II. For two long centuries soldiers moved into the monastery, and during their occupation the building became... more information |
| Categories: | monastery, museum, religious monument |
| Certificates and memberships | - certificate requirements have been met |
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| Description: | Coopery and wine museum, picture gallery, Romanesque crypt, stucco-work rooms and cellars. |
| Open to public: | permanent exposition/guided tour |
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| Languages: | tour guide (Czech) |
| Exhibition specialization: | food industry, agriculture, farming, breeding, hand-crafted wares, guilds, associations |
Premonstrate monastery of the Annuciation of the Virgin Mary and St. Wenceslas
| Description: | The church has been preserved in its original form, as extensive reconstruction in the 18th century was interrupted by the termination of the monastery and thus the church was left untouched. It is a Romanesque building with a Romanesque-gothic crypt, rediscovered in 1897. The cathedral nave conceals Romanesque walls up to the windows of the main nave. |
| Open to public: | permanent exposition/guided tour |



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