Sacred Heart Church (Hradec Králové)
The Sacred Heart Church ( Kostel Božského srdce Páně in Czech ) in Hradec Králové is a building of Czech functionalist architecture in a part of the city that was architecturally influenced by the modern age . This Roman Catholic church was built in memory of those who fell in World War I from the diocese of Hradec Králové.
location
The church is located in the Pražské předměstí ( Prague suburb ) on the northern side of Náměstí 28. října ( October 28th Square ) near the main train station in Hradec Králové.
Building
The Sacred Heart Church is a listed building by the architect Bohumil Sláma , which was completed in 1932 after almost four years of construction. The foundation stone was laid in 1928 on the 10th anniversary of the existence of the Czechoslovak Republic .
The church building has a tower that tapers upwards in two steps and is 45 meters high. There is a cross on it. The cross is six meters high and its horizontal legs 1.25 meters long. It consists of reinforced concrete and is centrally located in front of the main nave.
The main entrance in the form of an inwardly offset portal is located on the south side of the church. The entrance is formed by three passages at the foot of the tower. The windows with a skylight function and a cross-like main rib are divided into smaller cross-shaped fields.
The main components consist of reinforced concrete, which is plastered on its outside.
inner space
The main room is formed by a barrel vault supported by several belt-like supports. Daylight can enter the otherwise rather dark-looking room through large vertical-format skylight windows on the south facade.
The main altar, which was created with foreign natural stones by teachers and students from the stonemasonry school in Hořice in the neo-Romanesque style , is particularly effective in the church interior . Václav Henc, Josef Špráchal and Emanuel Malý were involved in the execution. The altar was originally intended by the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph for the Cathedral of St. Mary in Pula , Istria . For this he had the necessary pieces of rock delivered to Pula in a shipload around 1893. The later Bishop Mořic Pícha and the Hořice pharmacist Jan Levit tried after the end of the Danube Monarchy to obtain the altar that they had planned for the new church in the Prague suburb of Hradec Králové. It was only built into this church in 1937.
In 1934, the altar was shown to visitors at the Podkrkonošská výstava českého odboje ( Giant Mountains Exhibition on the Czech Resistance ) in Hořice. It cost 61,000 Czechoslovak crowns to make . These costs arose from the artful work on some parts and the selected rocks. A special type of Carrara marble and a yellow onyx marble from Egypt were used.
literature
- Petr David, Vladimír Soukup, Jan Jakl, Marek Pavlík (translation by Oliver Groschner): Travel guide through Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia. Hradec Králové . Prague (Soukup & David publishing house) 1997, ISBN 80-86050-12-2
Web links
- Description on the official city website of Hradec Králové (Czech text)
- Explanation with picture of the interior (Czech text)
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 47.2 " N , 15 ° 48 ′ 54.4" E