Klášterní Skalice

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The monastery Skalice ( Skalitz; Scalicium ) is a former Cistercian abbey in Klášterní Skalice Okres in Kolin in the Czech Republic, about four kilometers northeast of Kourim, in the valley of Kouřimka.

History

The monastery was founded in 1357 as the last medieval Cistercian abbey in the Czech lands donated by the Chancellor of Bohemia, Bishop Dietrich of Minden, who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg, who belonged to the Cistercian order even at a time in which the new construction of Cistercian monasteries had become rare, and colonized by Sedlec monastery. The monastery received from its founders land, which was not particularly extended, and two thousand shock Prague groschen. The foundation was confirmed by the Archbishop of Prague seriousness of Pardubice. The foundation of the monastery put the Bishop of Olomouc Johann Očko of Wlašim in the presence of Emperor Charles IV, who the court of the convent immunity confirmed in the same year. Yet 1357 was also confirmed by Pope Innocent VI. the founding of a monastery. In 1400, King Wenceslas took the monastery under his protection. Probably the monastery was destroyed during the Hussite Wars in 1421. The possession of the Abbey expected to be passed in the wake of secular feudal lords. However, the Convention was first on, but went down in the middle of the 16th century. The possessions of the abbey went to the mother monastery of Sedlec, which was itself dissolved in 1783 and was with the staff since 1553 Union.

Buildings and plant

From the monastery church, a more than ten -meter-high pillar with four massive Birnstabprofilen and other slim profiles received, originally made ​​perhaps the southeast corner of the crossing. To the south are fragmentary remains of the monastic buildings belonging to the later and earlier Wirtschaftshof the east wing of the exam were, which was approximately 63 m long. The north wall of the Baroque chapel south of the pier is Gothic in the core; they probably formed part of the southern wall of the southern Querschiffarms. The then withdrawing to the north wall may have been a remnant of the western wall of the southern Querschiffsarms. D. Libal then has attempted to reconstruct the original shape of the monastery church. Kuthan assumes a close connection with the architecture of the imperial court in Prague. Two keystones are kept in the Lapidary of the National Museum in Prague and at the City Museum of Kourim; the one wearing the relief of a winged bull, the other that of an angel.