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Franciscan Monastery, Plzeň

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A chapel on the north side of the chancel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was built in 1611, and stands on the foundation of the original Gothic chapel. A Baroque tower reinforced by supportive pillars, also on the north side of the chancel, is from 1676. The sacristy, on the south side of the
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The tower of the church was built at the end of the 16th century, and in 1611 an additional chapel was built and consecrated to the Holy Trinity. In 1618, Pilsen came under siege by the army of the Czech aristocracy under the command of Lord Mansfield, and the monastery was damaged again.
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The Franciscans returned to Pilsen in 1996 according to the wishes of bishop Františk Radkovský. The small community settled in an apartment in Vinice. Later, they bought the former kindergarten in Lochotín and it was adapted into the pastoral center Domeček.
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At the end of the 17th century, when the monastic community was at its peak, Jakub Auguston Sr. designed and built the Chapel of St. Anthony next to the north nave of the church, as well as a new monastery wing for novices. His nephew
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Today, the monastery holds the Museum of Christian Art of the Pilsen Diocese, as well as service apartments for people in charge of the diocese and regular nuns. Unoccupied parts are used for various purposes by the Parish of
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The cloister, like the church, has cross-vaulting, sometimes with bosses. It is built around a square central garden, which can be seen through Gothic windows, and accessed from the western wing through a doorway with a
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The monastery continued to be remodeled throughout the 19th century and into the 1930s. In May 1950, the monastic community was forcibly disbanded by the socialist government as part of
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The presbytery is separated from the nave by a triumphal Gothic arch. Late Gothic scenes from the life of St. Barbara from after 1460 can still be found on the walls and the vaults.
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monastery was founded at the end of the 13th century. The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Chapterhouse and Chapel of St. Barbara also belong to the monastery complex.
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separate the aisles from the nave. The south aisle is directly connected to the monastic cloister, while the north aisle connects to the chapel of St. Anthony.
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Until the 18th-century modifications, the kitchen was built as one large open room with a smoke pipe intake over the whole plan. In 1697, the
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with ogee ribs and simple geometric corbels, built in 1460 to replace the original 14th-century vault which was destroyed by fire during the
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Kuthan, Jiří. Česká architektura v době posledních Přemyslovců: města, hrady, kláštery, kostely. Vyd. 1. Vimperk: Tina, 1994, 582 s.
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The triple nave of the church is illuminated by small double windows from the late Gothic period, featuring different types of
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were built. The monastery was vaulted bit by bit: the presbytery and the triple nave after 1350, the eastern part of the
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are decorated with plant and animal motifs. The pillars on the outside of the chancel date to the early Gothic period.
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painting. On the tabernacle is a Gothic Franciscan Madonna dated around 1420. On the side altar is a relief of
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The Franciscan church and monastery are among the city's oldest buildings and, for all the calamities of the
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was rebuilt in a Gothic style and connected to the kitchen; a novice wing was built at the same time.
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The Minorites were banished from the monastery for a few months on the initiative of the radical
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The square chapterhouse can be entered from the eastern wing of the cloister by three Gothic
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In the eastern part of the cloister, there is a late Gothic pulpit, from 1543, and a small
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was the architect of the western facade of the monastery church, from 1722 to 1724.
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The oldest parts of the monastery, from 1300, are the walls of the pentagonal
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The main altar, from 1698, is in a Baroque style. There is a 1636 copy of a
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reforms, while the community was not disbanded, its population declined.
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E. Poche a kol., Umělecké památky Čech III. Praha 1980, str. 92–94.
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The monastery was damaged by fire during the 1433-1444 Hussite
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Portal in chancel leading to Chapel of Holy Trinity
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Czech
Main Square
Plzeň
Minorites
Franciscan
Hussite era
Thirty Years' War
Minorites
Pilsen
Wencleslaus II
ramparts
presbytery
nave
arcade
cloister
Hussite
siege of Pilsen
Pope Pius II
Franciscans
Jakub Auguston Jr.
Josephine
Action K
cs
Cathedral of St. Bartholomew
traceries
groin vault
ogee
triumphal arch
arcades

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