Children and Music III.

Saturday, 7. 10. 2023 at 18:00
Monastery Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St. Wenceslas
Znojmo (Czechia)

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The original Romanesque chapel was possibly built as early as the mid-11th century. In 1190, Prince Conrad Otto, along with his mother Maria, founded a Premonstratensian monastery at this chapel. This monastery became one of the most important in Moravia and held a significant position in the history of Znojmo. Of the original abbatial church, which was built in the Romanesque style as a three-aisled basilica, only three portals, the lower part of the apse, and a large Romanesque crypt, which is divided into two naves by six pillars, have survived. The church combines elements of various architectural styles up to the Baroque. During the Hussite Wars, it was destroyed in 1425 but was subsequently rebuilt. Near the church are the remains of a cloister from the second half of the 15th century. Further alterations were made in the 16th and 17th centuries, of which the Renaissance chapel of St. Sebastian, located above the sacristy and featuring an altar from 1580, is noteworthy. The church is currently built in the Baroque style from the second half of the 17th century. Prokop Diviš, the inventor of the first grounded lightning rod, also worked in the Louka monastery.