The second abolishment of the Monastery Vyšší Brod / Hohenfurth

The brothers remaining in the monastery were, besides Abbot Tecelin Jaksch, two Czech brothers and five elderly German brothers. Abbot Tecelin hoped to establish a new Czech community, with these and some newcomers, whom he strove to find everywhere. But the situation of the monastery and its small community was becoming more and more untenable. There were house searches, summons and threats. After the communist take-over in February 1948, the Monastery Vyšší Brod was abolished on the 4th May 1950, for the second time in nine years. The last German brothers had to leave Vyšší Brod for Austria. The last Abbot Tecelin Jaksch crossed the Czech-Austrian border on the 26th July 1948, first going to the monastery of Zwettl. The monastery of Vyšší Brod was finally inhabited by the two Czech brothers, three seminarians, one novice and one lay brother, who had to leave the monastery after it was abolished. The monastery housed, as far as is known, the barracks of the Czechoslovak Army, then for years, garrisons of frontier guards to man a border equipped with wire entanglements and guard towers. After their own barracks were built further inside the country, the monastery was left empty.