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A4W German Art In the village of Gut w alsser near Budweis there is a gem of finest baroque art, the parish church built by Dien ßen hofer. However, we also encounter much older monuments of German art in our Bolkstumsinsel and at its edges. Michael P ar ler, brother of the great Prague cathedral builder Peter Parler of Schwäbisch=Gmünd, contributed to the expansion of the Cistercian monastery in southern Bohemia. The chapter hall of the monastery of Goldenkron with its elegant arching arrangement and with the windows framed by terracotta decorations is extremely impressive. A work of German Gothicism is the town church (Dominikaner- firme) of Budweis from the 13th century (1265-1274) in the Saxon=architectural small forms, but also units of the Nordic brick building can be detected. In 1367 the Wittigons in southern Bohemia had donated the monastery of the Augustinian order Wittingau, originally for eight choir lords, but there were already twenty in 1389. This monastery of the Augustinian choirmen already counted in 1390 one hundred and eighty H at d s chiften, a few years later also masterpieces of table painting, to thank the unknown master of Wittingau and some of his students. Two centuries later, the painter Georg Wid m an n from Rosenberg created German art denmäler in the Schloß Kurzweil near Netoliz, the same painter from whom the images of justice on the town hall front of Prachachiss originate. The rich schnisserei of the Holzdeke in the Schloss zu Wittingau dates from the time of 160o, namely from the Krummmmall carpenter Ulrich Taxner. The extensive Barok fountain on the large ring in Budweis is a work of the turn of the 17th to the 18th century. Towards the end of the 14th century we find in Budwies the following German artists: the builders and stone-messes Christian von Pracha- tiß, Ulrich Sehdenswancz, Nikolaus Freydendaler and Gabler; the gold= forge Thomelin, Fritsch, Theodorich Pyn and Schwab, and the Schnisser Wisent. The Budweifer sculptor Andreas Morgenstern created the magnificent high altar of the Cistercian church Zwettl in the Waldviertel of Lower Austria in 1516-1525, whose only preserved middle section of the Assumption of Mary is located in the church to Adamstal in Moravia. Benedift Edelbeck from Budweis, there Siebmacher, wrote a German comedy in 1568 about the joyous birth of Jesus Christ and later