Psychotronics speak of a great power potential, sensitive characters have feelings of touching “something” here. The positive zone is said to have the shape of a cross, which is clearly visible in the drawing on the walls. There is perhaps some force that is supposed to defend this place from the intention to build anything else here. The monastery walls, the lower sandstone part of which is dotted with monograms and various inscriptions, are supposed to help treat depression.
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It’s all just supposedly and perhaps? How do you identify the most energetically strong places? It is located in the middle of the cathedral, on the fence at the entrance to the complex it is marked on the drawing.
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Former entrance portal
Photo: Vratislav Konečný
On the Royal Route
The small temple space constantly attracts visitors, being here alone would be almost a miracle. Even today, it is still alive, so forget about meditation. But it is certainly positive that you will come across three refreshment places with window sales of food and drinks.
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Panenský Týnec is now a bit cut off from the main road to Louny, which is expanding. Via regia, the Royal Route connecting Prague with Leipzig, once led here.
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Next to the ruins stands a former monastery rebuilt into a chateau in the 19th century. It is now used by the local authority.
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Why is his name Virgin?
The name týn was used for the place of the settlement fenced with poles, planks or log cabins, which, unlike castles or fortresses, did not have ditches or embankments. The basis is the Celtic word dűnum. It later occurs as a Germanic tone. It spread in our territory from the 10th to the 12th century. Týn was most often related to church property, see Týn nad Vltavou, Týn nad Labem, Horšovský Týn, Panenský Týn is the same.
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From the monastery is the municipal office.
Photo: Vratislav Konečný
Týnec is mentioned in a document in 1115, in connection with the Kladruby monastery, in 1321 it already appears as a small town.
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Habart of Žerotín (sometimes written from Žirotín), a powerful Czech family who had estates in the area, founded a nunnery here for the sisters of the Virgin of Claretius. Hence the Virgin. (but until the 16th century the villages called Žirotský Týnec). The Poor Clares wear a brown dress with a white belt, the nuns maintain a strict clause of secrecy.
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The construction was a thank you for the cure of his wife Škonka (Scholastika) from Šternberk from infertility by St. Agnes. In 1234, she received five Poor Clares from Italy and founded a monastery in Francis.
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There is speculation that she should have been buried here, her body was said to have been transferred here from Prague. Nothing is known about her grave yet.
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In the middle of Gothic
Photo: Vratislav Konečný
When the Hussites marched through the region
It is not known exactly when the construction of the monastery began, but it burned down in 1382 and was soon restored. In 1410, construction was interrupted. Poor Clares from Prague were invited to the monastery. The sisters inhabited the monastery until 1420, when they moved to Prague, fleeing the Hussites, who burned down the church property and did not take the prisoners.
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The Hussites also burned down the Prague monastery, which remained desolate for 136 years.
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After 1443, the virgin monastery was restored again.
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The locals dismantled the three pillars for construction
Only the nave pillars protrude from the monumental church. The temple has a 21-meter-long chancel, 9 meters wide, unfinished walls reach up to about 20 meters, the bell tower was added later. Of the three ships, the south remained with a vaulted grandstand and a recess portal, a piece of the western wall and the foundations of the rest. The three pillars ended up in the foundations of the surrounding houses over the centuries.
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The Žerotín family died out in 1467, then the property passed to Lobkovice.
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After the Thirty Years’ War, the destruction came in the form of reforms
The Thirty Years’ War disrupted over half of Europe. Panenský Týnec was devastated, and the monastery was looted. The Lobkovics moved to Prague for their property. When the town recovered, it was hit by a large fire on July 30, 1722, which burned down 28 houses.
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Side entrance to the temple
Photo: Vratislav Konečný
At that time, the Poor Clares were here again, and the monastery flourished thanks to the sale of drops of St. Agnes, which was a local medicine. Production began in 1730. Church reforms of Joseph II. buried all orders, and thus the Poor Clares.
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The owner was rich in tolls
The devastated estate was bought in 1797 by Jan Tuscany, a wealthy Prague burgher. He was a businessman, on the new road leading the village he collected four tailors for the toll, which brought him quite decently.
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The then powerful men of Europe also gathered in Panenský Týnec on 19 August 1813: Francis I, Emperor of Austria, Frederick William III, Emperor of Prussia and Russian Tsar Alexander I. It was a process against Napoleon.
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At that time, there was already talk of the magical power of the virgin ruins.
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In the end, the building was bought by the Herbenstein family, which belonged from 1872 to 1945.
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In the cemetery you will find the classicist Empire tomb of the Tuscans from 1800 and the tomb of the botanist, inventor and traveler Benedikt Roezl.
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