Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, Romanesque and Baroque church in Doksany, Czech Republic

The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Doksany displays a stone structure that blends Romanesque walls with later Baroque additions and decorative elements across its interior spaces. The building shows how successive construction campaigns reshaped the original medieval shell with new altars, ornamental details, and architectural modifications.

The church began around 1200 as a Romanesque basilica of the Premonstratensian convent, where daughters of noble families, including St. Agnes of Bohemia, were educated. Thomas Haffenecker rebuilt it in 1710–1720, adding the crossing dome and the tower at the eastern end in 1718; Rochus Bayer supplied stucco in 1720 and Jan Hiebel painted the Old Testament frescoes in 1720–1732.

The monastery educated daughters of noble families, among them St. Agnes of Bohemia. The church keeps its Romanesque layout, and the choir above the crypt was the nuns' gallery, reached by a staircase built inside the wall; the sisters used a separate tribune to avoid contact with the laity.

The church stands in the centre of Doksany, in the Litoměřice district of the Ústí nad Labem region. The Romanesque crypt lies below the western part of the building and is reached by a staircase built inside the thickness of the wall; the choir above it, once the nuns' gallery, is reached by the same stair.

The Romanesque crypt beneath the church, renovated in 1889, holds the grave of Gertruda Babenberská, wife of Vladislav II and founder of the monastery. Its four rows of columns and pillars with cylindrical, polygonal and doubled shafts support original cross vaults between stone semicircular arches.