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Praha |
| Strahov
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After his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in
1138 the bishop of Olomouc Jindrich Zdík took hold of the idea
of founding a monastery of regular canons in Prague, having the
support of the bishops of Prague and the Duke of Bohemia Sobeslav
I and after his death, Vladislav II. After his first unsuccessful
attempt to found a Czech variant of the canons' order at the
place called Strahov in 1140, an invitation was issued to the
Premonstratensians whose first representatives arrived from
Steinfeld in the Rhine valley (Germany). Thus a monastery
originated which has inscribed itself in the Czech political,
cultural and religious history for all time. The religious began
to build their monastery first of wood, as well as a Romanesque
basilica as the center of all spiritual events in Strahov. The
building was gradually completed and the construction of the
monastery stone buildings continued in order to replace the
provisional wooden living quarters with permanent stone. In 1258
the monastery was heavily damaged by fire and later renewed.
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| The
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| Other
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| It
really get a great colour in the autumn |
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