Kláštery Český Krumlov
Medieval monastery attic where late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque roof trusses survive in one continuous timber structure.
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This guide to the attic of Kláštery Český Krumlov leads you into the timber roof structure above the monastery's painted vaults, begun after Kateřina of Rožmberk founded the complex in 1350 and built up over more than two centuries. It traces the patchwork of late Gothic trusses raised around 1490, the fire of 1668, and the repairs led by builder Jakub Maggi, plus the later Renaissance and Baroque additions grafted onto what survived. Only monks, and later pigeons, ever saw any of it for generations, before the Minorites were evicted in 1950.
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