Čejkovice Templar Cella

The first mention of Čejkovice dates back to 1248, ie 770 years ago.Such an anniversary is appropriate to celebrate.We can accommodate where they lived and mainly rested Templars after wild fighting in the Middle East.The chateau today serves as a hotel.

While the Templars started the day with prayer and first ate at noon, two of one bowl, the hotel's morning buffet is far from modesty.

The layout of the rooms testifies to their historical origin.Following the abolition of the Templar Order, the Jesuits found themselves among the owners for a long time.Then the owners and the purpose of the castle quickly alternated until it became a comfortable hotel.

Templar intoxication

The Templars brought not only their know -how to Čejkovice, but also the vine 100 years before Charles IV.Founded vineyards, produced wine.To do this, as well as defensive purposes, they needed cellars and underground corridors.Not just just any.A spacious vaulted corridors could pass a rider on a horse just like a loaded car.How far?No one knows for sure.The reputation says that the length of the underground corridor is 28 kilometers.It is 650 meters open today and serves as the Templars to store and mature wines.

The divine drink has been produced here for 82 years by the Wine Templar Cellar Cellars Čejkovice.It has more than 350,000 liters of wines in oak and barric barrels and a large archive of bottled mature wines in historical cellars alone.Another 6 million liters have a cooperative in industrial buildings in Čejkovice.Wines come from their own and friendly vineyards from the Velké Pavlovice, Mikulov and Slovácko areas, ie from various subsoil, positions and climate.From a wide portfolio, everyone can choose.Bottles and labels are characteristic of the Templar ancestors.

Templar cellars are open to the public and the tour is worth.In addition to the Templar knight, at special live events, otherwise the statue as live, you will find the biggest bottle of wine.For historical barrels, it is possible to sit, smell and seek the truth about the Templars, their fate and life in general in the intoxicating glass.

Poor knights of Christ and Solomon's temple

Few historical organizations raise so many questions, speculation, conspiracy theories and emotions such as Templars, poor knights Christ and Solomon's temple.

The Church Order originated around 1120 in the Kingdom of Jerusalem on the initiative of the nobles to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land before the Muslim attacks.At first he claimed to be Augustinian order, his own religious rules were compiled by Bernard of Clairvaux, a French abbot and a prominent mystic.First of all the cleaning, then the Augustinian, the Templar and the Holy today.

Templar knights made a promise of purity, poverty, obedience and pilgrim protection.

The number of Templars and their fame grew rapidly.For the seat they received a part of the Royal Palace in Jerusalem, which stood where the demolished Solomon's temple.The name Templars is derived from the word Templ - an ancient temple, today probably a synagogue.

Did they discover there to build a mystical temple?Did they find something mysterious or holy?This will remain forever the subject of speculation and legends.The Templar Archive was destroyed.Their ordering is one of the few documents that have been preserved.It is certain that although the members of the Order were personally poor, the order has been very rich.Field army, which was basically the Templar order, can not do without much money, in the Middle Ages as well as today.

Where did the Mysterious Knights disappear?

As time went by and the Turks reproduced a number of Muslims in the front east was the position of Christian possessions unsustainable.The Templars were aware of this and built their position in Europe in time.In the Holy Land, despite the great efforts, they gradually lost individual possessions and castles, the Kingdom of Jerusalem was conquered.Many knights died, the remaining moved through Cyprus and Sicily to Europe.The Templars were also involved in Britain, in the north of Europe or in Hungary, but by the loss of the Holy Land their importance as fighters fell.

But their economic role has increased.Have already acted as very capable and reliable bankers.In Paris they guarded the French royal treasure.Let us leave the historians whether the bills have invented the Templars or the Johanites earlier.They cultivated vine, bought estates, lent money and rich more and more.Which is somehow not fit.And then came their largest debtor, the French King Filip IV.A nice, with popular practice of pogrom.To the Christian order it was not just.

The Templars were rich and independent, not subject to secular power or bishops, and were only subordinate to the Pope just like other orders.

The French king had to exert great pressure on the Pope and at the same time to accuse the Templars of heresy and the worst sins.So came Friday 13.October 1307, when the blanket arrests of members of the Order in France, imprisonment, torture and execution.Since then, the "Friday thirteenth" has been considered in Europe, northern and South America on an unfortunate day whenever appears in the calendar.In addition, thirteen has another connotation - the thirteenth apostle was Judas, the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is M and denotes death (Mavet).A similar position in Asia has four.

Outside France, although the Templar Order was also canceled, but there was no area violence there.Somewhere the Order brothers simply renamed another brotherhood.The property officially fell to the Johanites, or the Maltese Knights.In Bohemia and Moravia, the Templar Commissions gradually transformed into Johanite Economic Centers, in Prague on the Lesser Town of Johanites, they became rich by building fortified large -scale and dug up the Vltava drive around Kampa Island.

But by far not everything the Templars had got into the hands of church or secular power.The Templars apparently suspected that the disaster was approaching, and they probably did not estimate that they would be so cruel to them.In France, the Order remained until the arrest, but the day before the thirteenth, all his ships left the ports and sailed to Scotland and Portugal.What exactly did they carry and where the cargo eventually got is not clear to this day.It was certainly a great wealth.Whether it was just money and property, or even knowledge and morality, we also just guess.

Where did their heritage and knowledge go and what was it?Did the curse expressed on the flames on the border of the last Grand Jacques de Molay against the king and the Pope just by chance?Do they derive themselves from the Templars of the Community as Illuminati or Masons, or is it just said?

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