Holy or functional lines over Bohemia (Gerlach): Map 5

{151} Map 5: In 1086 a monastery is founded in Opatovice nad Labem, replacing a hermitage. It later has prioiries in Pěčín (2) – and thus on the intersection of the lines Prague–Opatovice and Rajhrad–Legnickie Pole – and in Legnickie Pole (3), Neumark (4), Krzeszów (5) and Vrchlabí (6). Apparently the line Krzeszów–Prague continues the line Domažlice–Prague over Stará Boleslav. Founded in 1108 and completed in 1115 is Kladruby (7), which extends the line Broumov–Prague (Břevnov) for 99 km beyond Prague, and later sets up priories in Město Touškov (8), Přeštice (9) and Přimda (10), this last being 22 km from Kladruby. In 1144 Queen Gertrude, the second wife of Vladislav II, founded the Premonstratensian convent at Doksany (11), after Vladislav himself had founded Stahov monastery, close by the hilltop fortress in Prague, in 1138–43. The provost of Doxany was appointed from Strahov – the distance between these foundations is 44 km. Chotěšov (12) already belonged to Doksany in 1145. In 1154 the Benedictines at Litomyšl (13) also ceded their house to the Premonstratensians. In 1120 Count Wilhelm von Sulzbach had already founded a new Benedictine monastery in Vilémov (14). In 1059 King Vladislav elevated the priory at Podlažice, in the modern district of Chrast, into an abbey (15). It remained however subject to the archabbey of Břevnov. The Benedictine monastery at Postoloprty arises at the beginning of the 12th century. It extends the line Rajhrad–Prague out over Slaný as far as the river Ohře. Priories arise in Bžany near Postoloprty, in Žatec (17) and in Klášterec nad Ohří (18).

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