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Monastery Church of St.Vojtěch

Klášterní kostel sv. Vojtěcha

Web: www.klasterbroumov.cz/
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50°35'10.973"N
16°19'58.441"E

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Monastery Church of St. Vojtěch in Broumov

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The appearance of the monastery we see today is the result of renovation work carried out during the High Baroque period. In 1726, Abbot Zinke approved the complete demolition of the old convent and most of the abbey building, to be replaced by a new building designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. The huge building, the north side of which extended beyond the original boundaries of the monastery grounds, was completed in 1733, the work having taken just six years. Dientzenhofer also designed the monastery’s interior décor, which was painted by some outstanding artists of the Prague Baroque - stucco master Bernard Spinetti, fresco artist Jan Karel Kovář and painter Felix Anton Scheffler. The earliest written record of the monastery Church of St. Vojtěch dates back to 1357, the year that probably saw the completion of work on the Gothic double nave with the polygonal end of the cloister and the two towers - a large clock tower in the axis of the western end and a smaller bell tower on the northern side of the chancel. After a fire in 1684, the church was rebuilt in the Baroque style by Martin Allio between 1685 and 1688. The church’s lavish interior décor is the work of stucco artists T. and A. Soldati; the frescos are by J. J. Steinfels, and the sculptures were done by M. V. Jäckel and K. J. Hiernle. The altarpieces in the six side chapels were painted by V. V. Reiner. 

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