Jesuit Church (Bratislava)

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Front view of the Jesuit Church

The Jesuit Church (Slovak Kostol jezuitov ) is a Roman Catholic church in the Slovak capital Bratislava . It is located in the old town , at Franziskanerplatz No. 4, directly opposite the Old Town Hall on the corner of the main square . It is consecrated to the Most Holy Redeemer, which is why it is also called the Church of the Redeemer or Salvator Church ( Kostol Najsvätejšieho Spasiteľa in Slovak ).

history

Festschrift for the inauguration of the first Protestant church in Pressburg

The church was built in the form of a Protestant prayer house between 1636 and 1638 in place of the former "Armbruster'schen House". The builder Hans Stoss, who originally came from Augsburg , was entrusted with the construction and designed a simple building in the style of the late Renaissance . Strict construction criteria had to be taken into account. The building was not allowed to have the appearance of a sacred structure and the construction of a church tower was also prohibited. After three years of construction, on December 18, 1638, the theologian with international significance from Augsburg , Josua Wegelin (1604–1640), the eleventh in the line of ancestors of the pastors of the German Evangelical Church Community AB , was able to do the first for the new prayer house next to the Pressburg town hall Sermon of thanks for the happy completion of the church building. The solemn consecration took place within the framework of a two-day church consecration on December 21, 1638. Josua Wegelin, the senior of the community, consecrated the church in the name of the Holy Trinity and he also gave the sermon. The German Evangelical Pressburgs had thus reached one of the high points of their existence at that time. With the consecration of this church, the first heyday of the Pressburg evangelical parish began. The construction costs amounted to 22,925 thalers .

Relief of the Jesuit coat of arms on the entrance portal

In 1672, shortly after the Wesselény conspiracy was uncovered and suppressed , the evangelical believers had to hand over the church to the Jesuits by order of Archbishop of Gran and Primate of Hungary György Szelepcsényi , who removed the galleries and gave the church a rich baroque interior. The exterior, on the other hand, remained largely untouched except for the portal and the roof turret (completed in 1673). After the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773, the church came to the city administration and served temporarily as the court church of the governor Albert von Sachsen-Teschen . In 1855 the church was returned to the Jesuits. In the 1950s, the communist rulers of Czechoslovakia expropriated the church from the Jesuit order and it served as a simple parish church. Only after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 did the Jesuit order get the church back.

Interior

Pulpit from 1753

The interior of the church is designed in the Baroque style, with some parts in the Rococo style . The main altar dates from the late 19th century and is adorned with a painting showing the Transfiguration of the Lord on Mount Tabor. The pulpit from 1753 and the Franz Xaver side altar are also worth seeing .

The cardinal , Archbishop of Gran and Primate of Hungary Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch is also buried in the church.

See also article: German Evangelical Church Community AB zu Preßburg

literature

  • CE Schmidt , S. Markusovßky, G. Ebner: History of the Evangelical Church Community AB zu Preßburg , 2 Bde., Pozsony 1906

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ortvay, p. 144
  2. ^ Ernst Hochberger: The big book of Slovakia , Sinn 2003, ISBN 3-921888-10-7 (p. 291)
  3. ↑ Ortvay, p. 146

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 38 ″  N , 17 ° 6 ′ 31 ″  E