URSULINE CONVENT
The first group of Ursuline nuns came to Kutná Hora in 1712; they settled in a house rented from the Cistercian order in Sedlec and immediately began to build a girls’ school and to look for a suitable location for a new convent. However, it took many years to make all arrangements with the municipality and only twenty years later, the construction of the new convent began according to the project by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, the most noted architect of that time. He planned to erect a monumental polygonal building with a big chapel in the middle, but circumstances played against him and only three wings have been completed. The church facing outside the convent was built in the beginning of the 20th century according to the design of Bedřich Ohmann.
A small lane called Ruthardka
It was given its name according to a legend about burgher family of Jiří Ruthard and his daughter Rozina. He was so miserly (mean) that instead of marrying off Rosina, arranging her wedding and endowing her, he had herimmured in a small room in the cellar of his house. Rosina starved to death and her father died soon after. Rosina then kept returning often as a ghost predicting perdition to the house. And eventually in 1648, the house suddenly collapsed leaving 15 dead behind.
LEGEND OF THREE SILVER RODS
Legend has it that a monk named Antoň, having worked hard at the monastery vineyard, had a nap and when he woke up he saw that three rods of silver had sprouted up next to his head. He left his frock (or 'kutna' in Czech) on the spot to mark it and reported the discovery at the monastery.
URSULINE CONVENT
The first group of Ursuline nuns came to Kutná Hora in 1712; they settled in a house rented from the Cistercian order in Sedlec and immediately began to build a girls’ school and to look for a suitable location for a new convent. However, it took many years to make all arrangements with the municipality and only twenty years later, the construction of the new convent began according to the project by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, the most noted architect of that time. He planned to erect a monumental polygonal building with a big chapel in the middle, but circumstances played against him and only three wings have been completed. The church facing outside the convent was built in the beginning of the 20th century according to the design of Bedřich Ohmann.
A small lane called Ruthardka
It was given its name according to a legend about burgher family of Jiří Ruthard and his daughter Rozina. He was so miserly (mean) that instead of marrying off Rosina, arranging her wedding and endowing her, he had herimmured in a small room in the cellar of his house. Rosina starved to death and her father died soon after. Rosina then kept returning often as a ghost predicting perdition to the house. And eventually in 1648, the house suddenly collapsed leaving 15 dead behind.
LEGEND OF THREE SILVER RODS
Legend has it that a monk named Antoň, having worked hard at the monastery vineyard, had a nap and when he woke up he saw that three rods of silver had sprouted up next to his head. He left his frock (or 'kutna' in Czech) on the spot to mark it and reported the discovery at the monastery.