Current Status
At present, the convent buildings form a complex of structures around four courts with a garden at the western wall. It is not a unified scheme of buildings and courts. As the convent's composition was developed by the build-up and spread of the buildings, it developed asymmetrically. The most well-preserved building is the convent church, in which the Gothic Architecture was preserved with many original details, especially the portals and vaults of the long presbytery. It has preserved the original segmentation of the interior by the window cornice, truncated support column with capitals, and windows with tracery. On the convent buildings remain well-preserved fragments of their artistic and handicraft decoration. Surveys have discovered previously unknown architectural details of the oldest structure.
From the older interior decorating of the convent, only fragments of the church interior, several Baroque sculptures and pictures of saints, Neo-Gothic furniture, and altar architecture have been preserved.
The convent complex is currently mostly unused while it awaits reconstruction and preservation.
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