In the Vyšší Brod Monastery, the restoration of the church interiors has begun

Higher Brod (Český Krumlov) - The restoration of the interiors of the abbey church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary has begun in the Vyšší Brod monastery after 83 years. The reconstruction of its roof was completed this spring. The work will be finished next summer. The prior Justin Berka told ČTK. The church will thus be ready for the Upper Austrian regional exhibition, which will take place in 2013. Its visitors will be attracted to Vyšší Brod by a new treasury featuring the previously hidden cross of Záviš of Falkenstein.
"The last restoration of the church interiors was in 1927 under Abbot Tecelín. Without subsidies from European funds, we wouldn't be able to do it. Additionally, the regional office will pre-finance the entire project with ten million crowns," the prior stated. A total of approximately 14 million crowns will be spent, among other things, to replace electrical installations and repair plasterwork. The general repair of the roof, which lasted four years, cost 12 million and was supported by the Ministry of Culture from the Architectural Heritage Rescue Program. The roof was in a dilapidated state, water was leaking into the church, and carpenters had to replace 15th-century beams damaged by woodworm.
For the Upper Austrian regional exhibition, which will be held in 2013 in Freistadt, Bad Leonfelden, and on the other side of the border in Czech Krumlov, a new exhibition of medieval art and a treasury for Záviš's cross will be built in the monastery in the so-called Rosenberg oratory.
The property, which was returned to the Cistercians in 1990, is, according to the prior, restored by about 60 percent. The dilapidated brewery is still managed by the Land Fund, and the economic buildings belong to a housing cooperative in liquidation. The Cistercians are also facing adjustments to the monastery courtyard in the near future. They intend to restore the so-called judicial building with baroque frescoes. In the summer, they managed to reconstruct the roof.
The church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Vyšší Brod dates back to the 13th century, and the entire monastery complex was completed only in the middle of the 14th century. From the beginning of the monastery's construction, it was considered as the place for the burial of the Rosenberg family. From the second half of the 13th century until 1612, ten to twelve generations of this family were buried there, as well as several dozen abbots of the monastery and other nobles related to the Rosenbergs or the monastery. Among them were the executed Záviš of Falkenstein and Petr I of Rosenberg, who, among other things, commissioned the creation of a cycle by the famous Master of the Vyšší Brod Altarpiece for the monastery.