Carmelite Basilica (Krakow)
| Carmelite Basilica | |
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 East view |
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| Construction year: | 1869 |
| Inauguration: | 1871 |
| Style elements : | Baroque |
| Client: | Catholic Church |
| Location: | 50 ° 3 '54.6 " N , 19 ° 55' 54.8" E |
| Address: | ul.Karmelicka 19 Krakow Lesser Poland , Poland |
| Purpose: | Carmelite Catholic Church |
| Diocese : | Krakow |
The Carmelite Basilica (Polish: Bazylika Karmelitów ) or Maria auf dem Sande (Polish: Maria na Piasku ) or the Basilica of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Polish: Bazylika Nawiedzenia Najświętszej Maryi Panny ) in Krakow is a Catholic church on 19 Karmelicka Street in the district Sand .
history
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prehistory
According to unconfirmed information, the first church building should go back to Ladislaus I. Herman from the 11th century. It is certain that in 1395 the holy Queen Hedwig of Anjou and her husband King Ladislaus II Jagiełło founded a Gothic church here, which was given to the Carmelites in 1397 . The church was during the siege of Cracow by troops of Maximilian III. Habsburg 1587, destroyed during the Swedish Flood in 1655 and the Polish-Russian War of 1768–1772 and rebuilt each time. In 1588, the heir to the throne for the Polish-Lithuanian crown Henry XI, who came from the Silesian Piast family , was held in the church . buried.
Today's church
The current baroque building was inaugurated in 1679. It received the title of a minor basilica in 1996 .
