Jesuit Church St. Marien (Nysa)
The Jesuit Church of St. Marien in Neisse (Polish Nysa ) (actually Church of the Assumption , Polish Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny ) is located on the Salt Market ( Rynek Solny ) next to the Carolinum College .
history
The Jesuit order was resident in Neisse in 1622. Charles of Austria , Bishop of Breslau and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , founded the monastery school, called Seminar St. Anna, on February 9, 1623, which was opened on April 23, 1624. The formation of a Jesuit university, which the bishop also intended, was not realized.
The Bishop of Wroclaw Karl Ferdinand Wasa donated the construction of the church according to the design of the Milanese architect Andrea Quadro . The construction work was carried out first by the builder Matthias Kirchberger, then by the episcopal court architect Michael Klein. The foundation stone was laid on May 27, 1688, and the church was consecrated by Bishop Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg on June 1, 1692.
The church fell victim to the flames during the siege of the city of Neisse by the Grande Armée in 1807. The exterior was later restored largely true to the original.
Every year on November 4th , the name day of the founder of the Neiss Jesuit branch Karl of Austria, a golden capsule with the heart of the founder, who died in Madrid , is exhibited during the mass . The capsule is kept in the St. Jakobus treasury in the bell tower of the St. Jacob and St. Agnes basilica.
The Marienkirche is one of the three branch churches of the parish of St. Jakob.
The church was entered on September 28, 1955 under 174/55 in the register of architectural monuments of the Opole Voivodeship.
architecture
The three-aisled church of the basilica type with two towers in the west facade and with a single-nave semicircular apse, without a dome, with only a hint of the transept, has a gable roof over the central nave and pent roofs over the aisles.
The three-axis west facade is structured with pilasters. The three-storey towers are equipped with baroque helmets, and sculptures stand in the niches crowned by shells. The entrance area is a specialty: two staircases on the side lead to the dais, above there is a balcony, supported by two pairs of Corinthian columns, the parapet decorated with balusters and two pairs of pinacles .
In the aisles there are chapels, connected to the main nave by arched arcades and galleries.
The choir gallery with the organ is located between the towers. Next to the southern chapel is the two-story sacristy with a staircase.
The central nave is covered with a barrel vault, the side aisles with cross vaults. The vaults are decorated with stucco , the paintings in the ceilings are attributed to the court painter of the Bishop of Wroclaw, Karl Dankwart .
The high altar from 1691 is only preserved in fragments due to the fire of 1807. The missing parts were added in 1860 by Bernhard Afinger . The silver tabernacle is the work of the Neiss jeweler Johann Franz Hartmann.
Entrance portal
Detail view of a tower helmet
Sculpture on the main facade
Church at night
literature
- Neisse: Texts and Pictures / Ed. By Wojciech Kunicki; with the assistance of Marta Kopij and Gabriela Połutrenko: 2. durchges. Edition: Nysa: Oficyna Wydawnicza Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej, 2005: ISBN 83-60081-00-X
- Marek Sikorski, "Nysa. Skarby sztuki i osobliwości", (Neisse - Art Treasures and Sights) 1999 ,: Silesiapress ISBN 83-909213-0-8
- J.Daniel, I.Zielonka, "Nysa-przystanek wędrowca", (Neisse - a hiker's stopover) 2004 ,: advertisement ISBN 83-912169-1-8
- Catalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce (Catalog of Art Treasures in Poland), t. VII, Województwo opolskie, z. 9, Powiat nyski, Warszawa 1963
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 17 ° 20 ′ 12.5 ″ E