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The Břevnov convent belongs
since 1991 to our National
cultural monuments. It was
founded thanks to the second
Prague bishop Vojtěch and the
Prince Boleslav II. The name
Břevnov is according to the
legend derived from the břevno - beam in the stream Brusnice that appeared
in a dream to the founder of the convent.
The construction of the
first friary in Prague and the second in Bohemia (after the convent of
the Benedictines at the Prague Castle), started in 993 and became the
seat of the Benedictines from the convent in Roman Aventinum. The
simple wooden building was rebuilt, improved and broadened during
the ages. During the 16th and 17th centuries the Church was several
times repaired and also there was built a New Convent. The
baroque period in the first half of the 18 century is characterised
by the complex of buildings with the Church of St Margaret built
by the important architects Kryštof and Kilián Ignaz Dienzenhofer.
After the Velvet revolution in 1989 got the Benedictine
order the convent back, they realized large restoration works
and in 1993 was Břevnov granted from the Pope Jan Pavel II
with a title Arch abbey.
Part of the complex of the farming building is the baroque
gate from 1740 with the sculpture of St Benedict and
the Angels. The most valuable building of the convent is
the Monastery Church of
St Margaret that exists at
this place since the end of
the 10th century. Around the
year 1040 it was substituted by
the new Romance basilica of St
Adalbert. The construction got
the Gothic shape at the turn of
the 13th and 14th centuries. Within
the baroque reconstruction of
the whole Convent complex there
was also the church repaired. In
1948 awarded the Pope Pius XII
the Břevnov Church with the title
Basilica minor. In the years
1965-1969 there was recovered
the early Romance crypt under
the sacrarium that is opened to
the public since 1983. You can see there various fragments of the medieval
building and decorative elements from the convent buildings.
The Hotel Adalbert is placed in the building that is the rest of the
former Old Convent founded by the Abbot Tomáš Sartorius in 1668.
The Sartorius Convent is the exhibit of the oldest construction in the
convent area; thar was realized before the great reconstruction in
the 18th century. New period of this historical building started by
its change to the hotel called after one of the founders the bishop
Adalbert. To the most exploited rooms in the hotel belong the
Theresa Hall, Brandl stateroom, The Abbot Dining room, En
trance Room, Pompeje Hall and the Corner Stateroom in the
first floor and Blue Stateroom, Yellow Stateroom, The Chinese
Pavillion and Benedictine Vine Bar in the ground floor.
The well kept garden with the pavilion Vojtěška is the pleasant
place for rest.
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