Mariánská Týnice

Mariánská Týnice is a former pilgrimage destination in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic, with the Baroque Church of the Annunciation and the Cistercian Provost Office built by Jan Santini Aichel in the 18th century.History of the pilgrimage siteIn the 12th century the little village of Týnec near Kralovice belonged to a man called Roman. He was ill and without children, and he promised that if he were healed he would build a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. They recovered and he kept his promise. In circa 1180 (or 1230) he bequeathed his property to the Cistercian monastery in Plasy.The monks of Plasy built a court around the chapel where they worked. People started to visit the site from far and wide and Pope Urban III granted the chapel special indulgence for the pilgrims in 1186, which was confirmed by Innocent IV in 1250. It became the oldest pilgrimage site in Western Bohemia.There are no subsequent records of the site until the Hussite Wars when the Plasy region was badly plundered. In the 16th century most of the property of the Plasy monastery was sold to Florian Griespek von Griespach.