Kostel sv. Augustina

I've visited so many churches lately that I don't know which one this is. But the church cannot be a bad place.

Pseudogotics. Nothing special. Interior decoration is good, but the church is still closed, as is customary in the Czech Republic. Much nicer is the local monastery.

There is an excellent acoustics in the church. There are concerts of artists and also children from Liduškoy and Diaconia. Funeral farewell in this church is reassuring.

Abbey church and garden are very idyllic! In the town you can stroll and snap!

The Augustinian Eremite Monastery in Vrchlabí was founded by the heir of the local estate, Count Maximilian František Felix of Morzin (1673–1706), who entrusted the project to Morzin architect and builder Matyáš Auer from Austria. The foundation stone of the new building with the planned refectory was laid on January 12, 1705, but in the following year Count Maximilian died and his brother Václav of Morzin (1675–1737) took over the building. The monks of the Augustinian Order, whose official inauguration took place on August 28, 1714, were celebrated in the monastery. Augustina. In 1760 a monastic pharmacy was founded, in 1881 a monastery library. On June 19, 1895, when repairing the roof of inattention, the church and the convent burned down, the repairs lasted until 1904. Since 1941, the whole one floor had been rented by the Krkonoše Museum for its collections and exhibitions - it cannot be ruled out that the move of the museum during the Second World War was part of the officially sanctified oppression of religious, whose father Johann Fischer was arrested by the Gestapo, deprived of consecration and sent to the front. After the Augustinians were eventually expelled as part of the Action K in 1950, all the buildings fell to the museum. The museum administration carried out a series of insensitive interventions, which ceased to be the transfer of the museum to the KRNAP administration in 1966. However, the museum was not the only user, for example, the cellar used the state potato storage, even in the immediate vicinity of the tombs. A year later, a building accident hit the buildings, where snow fell from the roof of the church to the convent's roof and damaged it significantly. The buildings were closed to the public and a gradual, thorough, but not rapid reconstruction began: the museum was only partially opened to the public in 1978 and the monastery church was repaired as the last one in the late 1980s. As part of church restitutions, the monastery was returned to the Order in 1991, but it was then sold to the existing user, ie the KRNAP Administration.

Nice stop after the tourist. Beautiful garden.

Food Festival in Monastery Garden 14.9.2019

The monastery church of the Order of the Witnessed Augustians is currently owned by the city. The whole building is a protected cultural monument. The church dates from the eighteenth century. The interior design, which combines Baroque and Rococo style, creates a very harmonious impression. When visiting Vrchlabí, it is really worth a visit.