Chotěšov Abbey

Monastery Chotěšov ( German Chotieschau ) is a former Prämonstratenserinnenkloster in Chotěšov, about 18 km southwest of Pilsen in Pilsen -South district in the Czech Republic.

The Roman Catholic monastery was founded, according to tradition in the years 1202-1210 by the Blessed Hroznata of Ovenec and generated as the center of a lordship within a short time, wealth and influence. This aroused the envy of the owner of the neighboring gentry. During the wars of the reform movement of the Hussites, the monastery was looted and burned in 1421 by a Hussite army group led by Jan Zizka. It survived the Thirty Years' War, with further billeting, devastation and harassment by troops.

In the Baroque period and the recatholicization in Bohemia, the monastery was re- Chotieschau to 1756 extensively rebuilt as a manor manorial system according to designs by Jakob Auguston, but was disbanded in favor of a religious fund in 1782 as part of the Josephine reforms. Property belonging to the estate and its income managed administrators.

End of the 19th century populated nuns of the Salesian Sisters of the monastery and built a girls boarding school. The sisters had to leave after the end of the Second World War, the monastery, which was transferred into state ownership in 1945. In 1993, the municipality tried to save the dilapidated monastery building.

In the summer of 2007 inszinierte there as a cross- border project, the Young National Theatre of Bavaria, the German -Czech co-production of the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare as a contribution to an international theater festival in Pilsen.