Capuchin monastery in Mnichovo Hradiště, Religious monument in Mnichovo Hradiště, Czech Republic.
The Capuchin monastery in Mnichovo Hradiště consists of three plain wings around a courtyard, directly connected to the presbytery of the Church of the Holy Three Kings, built in 1694–1699 to a design by the Capuchin P. Jiří of Munich. The church interior has housed a lapidarium of Central Bohemian Baroque sculpture since 1966, with about 50 mostly sandstone statues by Matyáš Bernard Braun, František Ignác Platzer, Ferdinand Maxmilián Brokoff and the Jelínek family of Kosmonos. A richly decorated Baroque Chapel of St. Anne, built in 1723–1724, is linked to the church.
The Capuchins founded the monastery in 1697, while the Church of the Holy Three Kings was built from 1694 to 1699 to a design by P. Jiří of Munich. In 1723–1724 Marie Markéta of Valdštejn had the Chapel of St Anne added. Sixty years later Vincenc of Waldstein-Wartenberg converted it into a family tomb and had Albrecht of Wallenstein's remains moved here from the abolished Carthusian monastery in Valdice.
The Capuchin church has housed a lapidarium of Central Bohemian Baroque sculpture since 1966, with about 50 mostly sandstone statues by Matyáš Bernard Braun, František Ignác Platzer, Ferdinand Maxmilián Brokoff and the Jelínek family of Kosmonos. In front of the monastery stands a Baroque statue of St Anne by Josef J. Jelínek from 1713.
The monastery is open to visitors and guided tours can be arranged through local tourism offices. Information about visiting times and access is available at the entrance or through local tourist services.
Albrecht von Wallenstein's remains were moved here from the dissolved Carthusian monastery at Valdice, and in 1934 a red-brown marble tombstone by the Liberec sculptor Karel Kolaczek was placed on his grave for the 300th anniversary of his death.
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