Temple of Apollo (Břeclav)

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Temple of Apollo
Apollo temple in distance

The Temple of Apollo ( Czech : Apollónův chrám ) is a staffage building in the park of the Valtice Castle (German: Feldsberg Castle ) in Břeclav , Czech Republic , part of the Lednice-Valtice cultural landscape and thus part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the same name .

Geographical location

The Temple of Apollo is located on the east bank of the Mühlteich and is connected to the pond castle and the border castle via a visual axis .

history

The building was built between 1817 and 1819 based on a design by Joseph Kornhäusel . When he left Liechtenstein's service in 1818, Joseph Franz Engel took over the ongoing construction .

building

The Temple of Apollo is a flat staffagebau with an antique-like facade facing the pond , which is formed from eight Doric columns . Its cornice is surmounted by an exedra in the middle . This spans a vestibule with a central relief showing a youth driving a four-horse chariot. Another four reliefs show the divine begetting of Apollo , his mother's flight to Delos , the birth of Apollo and his sister Artemis and a picture of the adult divine siblings. The central relief frieze shows Apollo as Lord of the Muses , as Phoibos and as the sun god on Mount Olympus . The reliefs are by Joseph Klieber .

The practical and functional parts of the building, a caretaker's apartment and a staircase to reach the roof, come from the second construction phase under Joseph Franz Engel. He arranged them at the back of the building, which appears so nested, if symmetrically designed, but is not built to be seen. The viewing platform set up on the exedra also comes from this construction phase under Engel.

The four statues that were placed on the attic come from a temple of the Muses that was demolished in the Eisgruber Castle Park in 1809 and represent Venus , Nereid , Vesta and Athene .

See also

literature

  • Pavel Zatloukal (eds.), Pŕemysl Krejčiŕik and Ondŕej Zatloukal: The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape . Foibos Books, Prague 2012.

Web links

Commons : Temple of Apollo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to classical iconography , that would be Helios , the sun god. According to the client's intention, however, this represented Apollo (Zatloukal: Die Kulturlandschaft , p. 122).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zatloukal: Die Kulturlandschaft , p. 124.
  2. ↑ a b Zatloukal: Die Kulturlandschaft , p. 122.
  3. ↑ a b c d Zatloukal: Die Kulturlandschaft , p. 123.

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '58.4 "  N , 16 ° 49' 28.1"  E