Dwie budowle romańskiej katedry we Wrocławiu

• Autorzy: Małachowicz E.

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Two romanesque buildings of the cathedral in Wrocław

• Języki publikacji: PL

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Of the four buildings preceding the present Gothic cathedral, two of them existed from the middle of the 11th century to the middle of the 12th. Know from historical references and rare dispersed architectonic details of stone, they were examined during the years 1995-1998, use being made of fragments of earlier discoveries from 1950. Both, in the light of investigations, turned out to be the same 11th century building rebuilt and enlarged in the 12th century on the same fountations. The second cathedral built after 1051 by King Kazimierz I the Restorer in place of the first cathedral of Bolesaw the Brave, which was destroyed in the pagan raising and the Czech invasion, was a Romanesque columned basilica with a transept and a three-nave crypt under the gallery. Its western part with towers and the central mass have not been examined. The interior was covered by a wooden ceiling or a bare roof tower. In the middle of the 12th century bishop Walter rebuilt it thoroughly, perhaps being compelled to do this because of the settling of the foundations of the north wall of the gallery, creating the third cathedral. The rebuilding consisted in tickening of the walls and also of the arching of the new nave body in the "bounding" system, with an addition of one span and two western towers as may be testified by an image of this building on the bishop's seal from 1172. The columned crypt with Corinthian capitals was also reconstructed. Of the rich sculptored interior decorations of this building there have survived 7 shafts of decorated columns and the figure of St John the Baptist as well as a fragment of the framing of four-leaved motives, the base, column shaft and capital. The architecture of both cathedrals, especially the sculpture, points to model patters from the vicinity of the Rhine and Moselle. The Romanesque gallery of this cathedral existed until 1244, and the nave body until about 1300; they were replaced by a new Gothic building.

• Wydawca: Politechnika Warszawska, Wydział Architektury
• Czasopismo: Kwartalnik Architektury i Urbanistyki
• Rocznik: 1999
• Tom: T. 44, z. 3
• Strony: 91--104
• Opis fizyczny: fot., rys.,

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Małachowicz E.