Kladruby (Tachov District)

Kladruby () is a town in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,600 inhabitants.
Abbey of Kladruby.
The Abbey of Kladruby is a large Benedictine monastery founded in 1115. Its vast Late Baroque Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Giovanni Battista Santini, architect) attests to the secular power and wealth of the abbey, which was dissolved under the regime of Joseph II. The abbot's princely revenue and territories made his naming a matter of considerable concern to the King of Bohemia, whose prerogative it was. In a confrontation with the local hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church over the rights of investiture – a conflict with parallels to the Investiture Controversy of the 12th century – King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia dealt with the interference of John of Nepomuk who had confirmed a candidate expressly not to Wencelaus' wishes, in the time-honoured way: on March 20, 1393, the offender was thrown into the river Vltava from Charles Bridge in Prague at the behest of Wenceslaus.
The nearest (10 km) important secular historic building dating from the same Late Baroque period is the manor house Trpisty.