A treasure allegedly lies in cellars beneath the old gamekeeper’s lodge, formerly a Premonstratensian convent. During the Thirty Years’ War, troops carrying plunder passed through and left much of it here. The nuns added a golden monstrance and a golden hen with twelve chicks. Their souls supposedly guard the treasure. Mysterious knocking is sometimes heard underground: the hen calling her chicks.
WHERE TO FIND THE PLACE
Location and map
- Place
- Pátek
- Municipality / starting point
- Pátek
- District / region
- Louny
- Country
- Czechia
- Distance and direction
- 10 km NE of Loun
Approximate location on the map
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SOURCES OF THE STORY
Sources of the original atlas Tajemná místa · page 250
This legend preserves a folk tale. Its motifs do not constitute evidence of supernatural events.