The Benedictine monastery overlooking the Sázava river was built by the Bohemian Prince Oldřich for the hermit Prokop and his followers in 1032. From the very beginning the monks developed the Slavonic liturgy and ran an important scribal workshop where a number of precious pieces of Old Church Slavonic literature were written.
Prince Břetislav II. ordered the expulsion of the Slavonic monks and replaced them with Benedictine friars from Břevnov. The Church of St. Prokop was built inside the complex in the 14th century. Its sanctuary was – together with the monastery – redone in Baroque style in the second half of the 17th century. The Emperor Joseph II. disestablished the monastery in 1785. The following owners from the ranks of the nobility slowly converted the building into a chateau. Unique wall paintings from the 14th century have been preserved in the capitular hall of the monastery and the foundations of the Church of the Holy Cross from the 11th century have been discovered in the monastery garden.