Chotěšov Abbey

The new foundation soon acquired wealth and influence, to the envy of the surrounding lordships and territories.

[1] After World War I a group of sisters returned to Germany and set up a community in Marchtal Abbey.

At the beginning of World War II the school was closed and instead the sisters took over the running of a home for elderly women which was established in part of the premises.

All occupants of the abbey were evicted in 1950, when the abbey was requisitioned as accommodation for the Czech army (the protest singer Karel Kryl did part of his military service here in the 1960s) until 1975 when the army left, leaving an estimated 10 million crowns' worth of damage for which compensation has never been received.

The abandoned buildings are in part in a state approaching the derelict and are threatened with collapse, despite their architectural and historical value and the great efforts of the local community to save them.