The Monastery of St. Marienthal can look back on over 770 years of uninterrupted existence. True to the monastic motto "ora et labora" (pray and work), living here since 1234 to Today, the sisters to the Rule of St. Benedict and the Constitutions of the Cistercian Order. The current monastery was created after the great fire in 1683 Bohemian Baroque and so it remained to now. (Info from http://www.kloster-marienthal.de/Willkommen/Geschichte/geschichte.html)