Hradisko Monastery

The Hradisko ( German: Kloster Hradisch; Czech: Klášterní Hradisko; colloquially: Moravian Escorial ) is a former branch of the Benedictines and later Premonstratensian. It is located on the northern outskirts of Olomouc on a small hill near the March ( Morava ).

History

Originally on the site of the monastery was an older Přemyslid Castle ( Hradiště ), which was the beautiful, a son of the Duke Břetislav since 1061 seat of the Olomouc princes Otto I.. 1078 gave Otto and his wife Euphemia the castle to the Benedictines of Břevnov and endowed the monastery to be founded with rich foundations of. The monastery church was in 1078 by the Olomouc Bishop John the hl. Stephen and consecrated in 1087 refers to the plant, therefore, as " Stephan monastery of Olomouc suburb ". 1151 the monastery was assigned to the Order of the Premonstratensian. The Benedictine monks had to leave Hradisch and were admitted in Opatowitz monastery in Bohemia.

Over the centuries Hradisch was sacked several times, devastated and destroyed 1241 by the Mongols in 1429 by the Hussites in 1432 by the encampments, in 1642 during the Thirty Years' War by the Swedes.

The present buildings were built 1661-1737 after plans by the architect Giovanni Pietro Tencalla and Domenico Martinelli in Baroque style. They belong to the architectural feats of the time.

In the 18th century, the monastery was a center of Jansenism. After secularization in 1783, it served until 1790 as a State General Department of Moravia. From 1802 it was used as a military hospital. Today, the open-access facility houses the Olomouc Military Hospital.

Attractions

  • The monastery church was built in 1730 comprehensively redesigned. The ceiling fresco painted by Johann Christoph Handke.
  • The Prelature was probably built after plans by Domenico Martinelli and decorated with sculptures by Baldassare Fontana, Georg Anton and Joseph Heintz the Elder Winterhalder. The hallway paintings created Daniel Gran, the fresco in the main hall Paul Troger.

List of abbots of the monastery Hradisko

  • January (1078-1081)
  • Bermar (1081-1116)
  • Paulinus (1116-1127)
  • Deocarus (1138-1144)
  • Jiřík (about 1149-1159 )
  • Blazej ( called 1160 )
  • Michal ( called 1174 )
  • Dětřich (1184-1189)
  • Hilar ( called 1200)
  • Heřman (1201-1216)
  • Bonifac (1221-1223)
  • Petr (1225-1230)
  • Rivin ( called 1232)
  • Gerlach (1233-1238)
  • Bonifac (1238-1239)
  • Robert (1240-1267)
  • Budiš (1269-1290)
  • Roman (1290-1300)
  • Bohuslav (1310-1315)
  • Jindřich (1315-1322)
  • Tomáš (1322-1332)
  • Frydrych (1332-1336)
  • Augustin (1336-1350)
  • Mikuláš Rus ( ~ 1453)
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