Monastery in Panenský Týnec, Gothic monastery and château in Panenský Týnec, Czech Republic.
The monastery in Panenský Týnec, rebuilt as a château after 1797, stands on a steep terrain edge: its south façade is one storey tall while the north side is ground level. The ground floor measures 29 × 11 metres with flat-ceilinged rooms; the cellars keep Gothic masonry of the original convent, two vaulted rooms divided by later partitions into six. A triangular dormer marks the south front, and a balcony on four ornate consoles with a round-arched Renaissance portal faces north.
The Clarissine convent was founded around 1280 by Plichta of Žerotín, or in 1293 by Habart of Žerotín. Hussites burned it in 1420; the nuns fled to Prague's Agnes Convent and returned before 1443, when the Žerotíns had it restored. After a fire on 28 November 1643 the abbess reported the ruin abandoned. Emperor Joseph II dissolved it in 1782, and the Prague burgher Jan Tuscany bought the estate.
The village and monastery were held by the Žerotín family, who raised Panenský Týnec to a market town and founded the Clarist convent; founder Plichta ze Žerotína around 1280 or Habart ze Žerotína in 1293. The Renaissance cloister of 1548 contained the Chapel of the Holy Trinity with the Žerotín tomb, which later vanished entirely.
The château stands on a marked terrain edge: its south façade is one storey high, while the north side is ground level only. The cellars keep Gothic masonry of the original convent, divided by later partitions into six rooms. The ground floor measures 29 × 11 m with flat ceilings; a triangular dormer marks the south front, and a balcony on four carved brackets with a round-arched Renaissance portal faces north.
The south facade is one storey tall while the north side is only ground level, because the building stands on a marked terrain edge. In the cellars, Gothic masonry of the original convent survives, two vaulted rooms later divided by younger partitions into six.
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