Monastery in Slaný, Baroque monastery in Slaný, Czech Republic

The Monastery in Slaný is an Early Baroque building with a church at its center, multiple attached rooms, and an inner courtyard. The courtyard contains an old sundial and various chapels that complete the complex.

The monastery was built between 1655 and 1662 at the initiative of Bernard Ignác Jan of Martinic, owner of the Slaný estate, and his wife Veronika Polyxena, after the church was destroyed in 1623 during the Thirty Years' War. The Franciscans from Znojmo, Alexander Radlinský and Serafín Fridrich, moved in in 1658. A deliberately set fire on 28 June 1665 collapsed a tower and melted the bells; Martinic had the damage repaired and the nave widened.

The monastery was handed to the Franciscans before completion; the first friars, Alexander Radlinský and Serafín Fridrich, came from Znojmo and lodged in a house on the square until 1658. Since 1996 a small community of Discalced Carmelites has lived here and rebuilt the site.

The monastery stands in a park beside the cemetery on Hlaváčkovo Square, north of the town centre. A small Discalced Carmelite community has lived and worked here since 1996 and has been carrying out a large-scale reconstruction, so parts of the grounds may be closed off.

On 28 June 1665 a deliberately set fire broke out during a banquet in the refectory; one church tower collapsed, the vault caved in and the bells melted. Bernard Ignác Jan of Martinic had the damage repaired and the nave widened.