Abstract
The monastery of the Franciscan Observant Friars with the Church of All Saints in Krupka was founded in 1474. Despite th fact that the order's documents do not mention the founders of the monastery, it is most likely that they were members of the Koldice family, Těma or his mother Anežka born of Landštejn.
The building of the monastery and the livelihood of the monks were supported by the town and its citizens and in the early stages by the Koldice family too. While consstruction of the monastery buildings, due to dwindling financial resources, continued into the 16th century, the monastery church was most likely completed in 1494, the year of its consecration by the Varadin bishop John.
The decline of the monastery has been described by the baroque order chronicles in the spirit of catholic propaganda as a result of heretic riots in 1575. In fact, the monastery was still provably functioning in 1567.
Howerer, by 1575, it was already deserted and in 1587 renewed, shortly after its handover to Jesuits. Following their devastation during the Thirty Years War, subsequent provisional renovation of the semi-demolished buildings was completed in 1787 and they were sold to the town.
The masonry of the monastery buildings was gradually dismantled and in the ruins new town houses were built. Preserved iconographic material and several historiv descriptions have allowed us to reconstruct the original likeness of the monastery church.
There were three vaulted naves crowned by a polygonal presbytery. From the north and west the church was attached to the convent buildings; to the southwest was the cemetery.
Only a part of the church gable masonry has survived, but together with the remaining historical descriptions it has been possible to identify the positions of individual parts of the complex within the contemporary housing.