Teplá

Teplá lies on the river of the same name in the western Bohemian uplands. Its Premonstratensian abbey was founded in 1193 by the nobleman Hroznata of Ovenec, and its first monks came from Strahov in Prague. The neighbouring town, recorded in 1197, guarded a land entrance with a market and customs post. Abbot Raimund Wilfert II rebuilt the monastery around the turn of the eighteenth century; the older church retained its Romanesque and early Gothic forms, with a new high altar added in 1750.