Monastery - Borovany, Czech Republic - Photos Then and Now on Waymarking.com

Borovany - a village, that was already noted in the year 1186, was at the end of the 13th century the residence of the Vítkovci family and was later owned by the Rožmberks. The next owner, Peter from Linda, established an Augustinian monastery in Borovany with the church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that was built in the Late Gothic style during the years 1455-1466. Its Baroque tower is from the year 1729, in the year 1746 a Baroque chapel with rich fresco decorations was built as an extension on the north side of the church. The representative three-winged building in the Baroque style from the year 1760-1770 was used as the location of the monastery prelacy. After the monastery was disestablished in the year 1785, the owners of Borovany at that time, the Schwarzenbergs, changed it into a castle. At present the two-storeyed building is the dominant characteristic of the square and also of the town of Borovany.

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Klášter byl založen roku 1455 Petrem z Lindy. Za pusobení Rožmberku byl klášter zrušen, znovu obnoven byl v roce 1663 pécí císare Ferdinanda III. V polovine 18. století byla pristavena Škapulírová kaple a reprezentacní prelatura. V roce 1785 byl klášter zrušen císarem Josefem II. Objekt následne koupil rod Schwarzenbergu a od roku 1939 patrí Borovanum. V prostorách zámku byla v letech 1940 - 1997 základní škola.
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Year photo was taken: 1900

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