The Hájek Monastery by Červený Újezd

The Hájek Monastery by Červený Újezd is situated in the register of Červený Újezd, in the district of Prague - West, by the road from Červený Újezd to Břve. It is a monastery complex, composed of a loreto, which is surrounded of a cloister with two residential wings (the monastery was administrated by the franciscans) and other buildings. In the past, the complex uset to be one of the most important places of pilgrimage in the region of central Bohemia. In the fifties of the twntieth century, it was used as a detention camp and then as a military station. The autor dicribed the complex as it could have been seen at the beginning of the twntiwth century, this description is based on a litarture and historical sources. Using her own photodocumentation, she then dicscribed the current state of the complex. She shown that almost nothing has remained of the original equipement, only some elemnts are stored in other places. In the terms of presevation of the architecture, the complex is dilapidated but not in disrepair. The renovations are slowly carried out. In the complex of Hájek we can find some items of structural-historical interest. It is the loreto, one of the oldest in the region of the Czech countries (1623); the so-called hermitage, which could perhaps have been used for some paralitugical..