The monastery buildings were arranged around a square courtyard. The entire north side was occupied by the pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, and two-thirds of the east side by the monastery Church of St. Francis. Externally, the buildings appeared unified. A ground-floor cloister, covered by a slate shed roof, encircled the inner courtyard. The cloister was lit by oblong, segmentally arched windows. Paintings depicting the lives of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, dating from .. Read more »1907, adorned the plastered reed ceiling of the cloister. An oblong, semi-circular portal with a central keystone and molded jambs led from the cloister into the pilgrimage church. The west wing of the monastery contained a parallel corridor, connected to the cloister by doors, which provided access to utility rooms. From the first-floor corridor, one entered the individual monks' cells. The cloister housed several older items: a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary from the early 18th century, a newly polychromed copy of a local miraculous statuette from 1900; a painting of St. Sebastian, oil on canvas, a copy of an Italian original by Jan Vojtěch Schreiber from 1856; a wooden crucifix from the first half of the 19th century hung on the wall, along with fourteen Stations of the Cross paintings, oil on canvas, from the early 19th century. In 1946, German monks were the first to leave the monastery as part of the expulsion. On September 4, 1948, the Capuchin monastery was closed and handed over to the State Security. Uranium mines and associated communist concentration camps for political prisoners were opened near the former monastery. Public access was thus undesirable. At the end of 1950, State Security officers began demolishing the furnishings of the churches and monastery; the empty space served as an interrogation room. Later, they converted the nave into a shooting range. After destroying the interior, the interior of the monastery church was converted into garages
