Mariánská Týnice

The provost and Sanctuary Mariánská Týnice ( German Maria Teinitz ) is located in Mariánský Týnec at Kralovice in the Czech Republic.

The site has been inhabited since the 13th century. The abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Plasy Andreas Troyer (1648-1699) founded at the end of the 17th century, the provost. 1711 laid the Abbot Eugen Tyttl the foundation of the Pilgrimage Church of the Annunciation, which was designed by Santini. The Church reminds the floor plan to the form of the Greek isosceles cross with a central square room. After the dissolution of the monastery Plasy ( 1785 ) as part of the Josephine reforms, the provost was administered by the Religious Fund. In 1826 it came into the possession of the Metternich family.

Nowadays it houses the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Pilsen Region with permanent exhibitions and ethnographic and art historical collections.