On Saturday, 22 July 2017 at 15:00, the blessing of a new bell for the Centre of Building Heritage of the National Technical Museum will take place in the premises of the Court of Building Crafts of the NTM Plasy. The bell will be blessed by the Bishop of Pilsen Mons. Tomáš Holub.

The bell with the emblem of the abbot of the Plasy monastery Evžen Tyttl
– 1706 Johannes Daniel Pricquey
– 2017 Petr R. Manoušek

The original Baroque bell, which became the model for the new bell in Plaka, comes from the famous bell-making workshop of the Prisquey family. It was cast in Klatovy in 1706 by Johannes Daniel Pricquey (1657-1730). The bell bears the initials and coat of arms of Abbot Eugen Tyttl, who represented the Cistercian monastery as its abbot from 1699 to 1738. It is no longer known where the bell was placed. It is preserved in the collections of the West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen, where it came into the museum’s collections at the beginning of the 20th century. The pleading Latin inscriptions on its mantle “Lightning and storm deliver us, Lord Jesus Christ” and “Hail and flood deliver us, arch of the covenant” give room for the idea that the bell may have been intended for the farm yard of the Plzeň monastery. Therefore, in 2017, the National Technical Museum had an exact replica of this baroque bell cast for the former farmyard of the Plzeň Monastery and will ring out anew within the Building Heritage Centre. The author of this bell replica is the well-known Czech bell-maker Petr Rudolf Manoušek.

The blessing of the bell will take place as part of the Bell Ringing Day of the Plasy Building Heritage Centre of the National Technical Museum and the Summer Baroque Festival of the Pilsen Region.

Entrance to the event and the Exposition of Building is free on this day.

The programme of the whole day can be found at https://muzeum-plasy.cz/node/106