Basilica of St. Thomas the Apostle (Nowe Miasto Lubawskie)

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St. Thomas Apostle Basilica
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The Basilica of St. Thomas Apostel ( Polish Bazylika św. Tomasza Apostoła ) is a Roman Catholic parish church in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie in the northern Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The church of the diocese of Toruń named after the apostle Thomas bears the titles of a minor basilica and a collegiate church . The Gothic church from the 14th to 15th centuries is a listed building.

history

The construction of the church began after 1325 with the construction of the two western bays of the originally rectangular closed choir. A pseudo-basilic church building with low, octagonal pillars was built by 1350 . The lower part of the tower, originally with a large window above the portal, and a polygonal tower on the northern part of the facade were also built. In the second half of the 14th century, the main nave was increased to an interior size of 17.8 meters by the design of a basilica , the side aisles were 7.7 meters high. The capitals as well as the tracery and the vaulted supports were also created. At this time, the gable of the nave with the church tower and the places of the unrealized shield arches were created. After 1400, the chancel was extended by a three-sided apse and topped with an attic with facing and eyelashes over the end. After 1460 the main nave was covered with a four-ribbed star vault and the tower was raised to 40 meters. The 54 meter long church has a width of 19 meters. The decorations inside the church were made in the Middle Ages, Mannerism and Baroque with wall polychromies.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, a burial chapel of the Działyńskich family was added in the corner between the south aisle and the choir. As a result of the fire in the church in Łąka in 1882, the famous statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary was moved to the parish church in Nowe Miasto.

Pope Paul VI granted the church minor basilica status in 1971. On March 25, 2012, the college chapter Nowomiejską ika was founded in the basilica , giving the church the rank of collegiate church. It lies on the section of the Polish Way of St. James from Olsztyn to Toruń .

Furnishing

Important parts of the church furnishings are the late Gothic triptych from the first half of the 16th century and the main altar from around 1630. The Gothic tombstone of Kunona von Liebenstein († 1391) and the Renaissance tombstone of Nikolaus Dziasyski († 1604) are worth mentioning . In the case of the organ from 1610, a new instrument was created in 1909 by the organ builder Bruno Goebel . Its 27 registers are played via two manuals and a pedal.

literature

  • Andrzej Taliński: Dzieje parafii Nowe Miasto Lubawskie do 1772 roku. Lublin, 1989.
  • Z dawna Polski tyś królową. Przewodnik po sanktuariach maryjnych. Szymanów, 1983.
  • Diecezja Toruńska.Historia i teraźniejszość. T.13. Deanery Nowomiejski. Praca zbior.red.Stanisława Kardasza. Toruń, 1998, pp. 76-94.
  • Karolina Pszczółkowska: Perła ziemi lubawskiej . Spotkania z Zabytkami, No. 3-4, 2010, pp. 32-35.

Web links

Commons : Basilica of St. Thomas Apostle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bazylika św. Tomasza Apostoła on gcatholic.org
  2. ↑ Monuments of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship - Powiat Bartoszycki (Polish)
  3. ↑ Kościół Parafialny (Polish)

Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 27.5 ″  N , 19 ° 35 ′ 39.8 ″  E