Chotěšov Abbey, Medieval monastery in Chotěšov, Czech Republic

The complex presents baroque architecture with two prominent towers, a central courtyard and several buildings connected through cloisters. The abbey church displays elaborate stucco work and frescoes dating from the 18th century.

Blessed Hroznata established the monastery for Premonstratensian nuns in 1202, with his sister Vojslava becoming its first abbess. Following destruction by Hussites in 1421, reconstruction occurred before Jakub Auguston directed the baroque transformation between 1737 and 1756.

The Visitandine nuns, expelled from Moselweiss near Koblenz, leased the convent in 1878 and ran a girls' boarding school known for language teaching. After 1945 about 30 Czech sisters remained to run an old people's home until the army evicted all occupants in 1950.

The abbey is open to the public with both guided and self-guided tours; a firefighting museum occupies the baroque pavilion. It stands on elevated ground above the Radbuza, 15 km from Plzeň (the English source gives about 18 km southwest). In 2025 the sewer tunnels beneath the convent building opened to visitors for a limited time.

The abbey church houses a rare baroque depiction of Saint Norbert of Xanten's vision, the order's founder, painted by Petr Brandl in 1739 and considered among his most important religious works.