Capistan's pulpit

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Capistani pulpit with a baroque figural group

The Capistrankanzel is located outside on the corner of the north choir of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . The Gothic pulpit and a group of Baroque figures form an ensemble of monuments in honor of the St. Franciscan Brother Johannes Capistranus .

history

Capistran preached from the pulpit and from around 1430 it was probably in the middle of St. Stephen's cemetery. Originally it was a carving made of oak. Later reproduced in stone, it was moved close to the cathedral with the abandonment of the cemetery around 1735 and transformed into part of a monument in 1737/38 by adding a figural group. This was built by the sculptor Johann Joseph Resler based on a design by the painter François Roettiers and was Resler's first documented independent work.

description

Figural group

On a base with an inscription cartouche behind the pulpit is the figure of the saint with a flag in his right hand, at his feet a reclining (defeated) Turk and surrounding him with trophies of arms and flags. It is crowned with a cloud halo with putto and a halo.

The portrayed Turk recalls that after the fall of Constantinople (1453) , Capistranus called for a crusade against the Turks and in 1456 he played an important role in the defense of Belgrade against the Turks.

pulpit

The stage is four-sided with truncated corners to the front, making the parapet three-sided. Backwards the stage is open. The parapet walls are adorned with ogival tracery.

  • Johannes Capistranus

  • Detail of the pulpit

  • Detail: defeated Turk

  • detail

literature

  • Felix Czeike: Vienna. Art, culture and history of the Danube metropolis. DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4348-5 , p. 94 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • The so-called Capistran pulpit near St. Stephan in Vienna . In: Communications from the KK Central Commission for Research and Conservation of Architectural Monuments , Volume 15, Vienna 1870, pp. XCII f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Capistrankanzel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Capistrankanzel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna ; Retrieved Oct. 12, 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 30.2 "  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 25.6"  E