Holy or functional lines over Bohemia (Gerlach): Map 6

{152} Map 6: In 1139 the Benedictine monastery at Želiv is created. Its founder is Reginard, Abbot of Sázava. Želiv is 44 km from Sázava. At the same time as the later Premonstratensian monastery in Želiv (1148) arises the convent of Louňovice pod Blanikem (2). In 1143 the first monastery at Sedlice (3) is built, by Cistercians. It has priories in Kouřim (4), Chotusice (5) and Týnec nad Labem (6). Kouřim is 22 km from Sedlice. To Sedlice belonged Mnichovo Hradiště (7), where immediately an independent monastery arose. The sides of the triangle Prague–Sedlice–Mnichovo Hradiště are each 66 km long. Nepomuk monastery is said to have been founded by 1130, with religious brothers from the Frankish monastery Eberach. In 1146 the foundation stone of Plasy monastery is laid. It is occupied by monks from the East Frankish monastery Langheim, has a priory in Česká Lípa (10), and sends new colonies of monks to Mnichovo Hradiště and Zlatá Koruna (11). In 1146 Queen Judith founds a Benedictine convent in Teplice (12). The line Teplice–Prague continues the line Louňovice–Prague. The Cistercian monastery Osek (13) is founded in 1194. It was originally in Mašt’ov (18). In 1193 Teplá monastery (14) was laid out. The sisters of the convent at Teplá founded the Premonstratensian convent in Chotěšov (15), 44 km from Teplá. In 1184 Count George of Milevsko (Jiří z Milevska) founded Milevsko monastery (16). Brother Gerlach from Želiv became Abbott there, and the first monks came from Želiv. Toužim (17) is named as a priory of Milevsko. A Ciistercian abbey is founded in Waldsassen (19) in 1132.

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