Basilica of the Most Holy Savior and All Saints
The Basilica of the Most Holy Redeemer and all the saints (Pol. Bazylika Najświętszego Zbawiciela i Wszystkich Świętych ), also Guttstädter Cathedral in Dobre Miasto (Guttstadt) in Polish Olsztyn County in Warmia is a Roman Catholic congregation - and the parish church and since 1989 Minor Basilica .
history
The Säkularkanonikerstift Sanctissimi Salvatoris et Omnium Sanctorum founded the Warmia Bishop Hermann of Prague as part of its planned eastward expansion in 1341 in Pettelkau at Braunsberg . It was moved to Glottau in 1343 and to Guttstadt in 1347, which was only a good two decades old. By moving inland, the monastery became the second ecclesiastical center in the Diocese of Warmia next to the cathedral monastery in Frombork , which it soon equaled structurally.
In the south-western square of the chessboard-like walled city, the large-scale collegiate church and the initially three-winged convent building were built from 1376 onwards. The church was completed in 1396. The square west tower was added in 1496; its top floor and the gable roof with neo-Gothic stepped gables date from 1895.
The collegiate was with sinecures for 12 canons endowed . It acted as a religious and cultural center for Guttstadt and the surrounding area. It was devastated by the invading Swedes in 1626 during the Thirty Years War and restored in the second half of the 17th century. In 1810 it was secularized . The church remained a Catholic parish church. In the fire in Guttstadt's old town after the Red Army marched in on February 3, 1945, the monastery complex suffered only minor damage. In 1960, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński initiated the re-establishment of the Collegiate Foundation.
Architecture and equipment
The collegiate church is a spacious three-aisled hall church without a choir in the brick Gothic style . The interior span stellar vault .
The mercy seat is considered to be the most valuable work of art , a representation of the Trinity from around 1500, which could have come from the school of Veit Stoss . In 1510, a local artist created the Anna-selbdritt group in the left aisle using the same formal language . The Marian altar with apostles is dated to 1430. Other altars, pulpit, baptismal font and choir stalls come from the restoration phase after the Thirty Years War. The richly figured baroque high altar was built in 1748.
Web links
- The Guttstadt Cathedral (ostpreussen.net)
- History of the Kollegiatstift (ostpreussen.net)
- Home letter of the district community Heilsberg , 2016 : From the Guttstädter Geschichte (p. 22–34), with many historical pictures
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 59 ′ 9.7 " N , 20 ° 23 ′ 45.3" E