Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Wroclaw)
The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary , formerly Barbara Church (Polish Sobor Narodzenia Przenajświętszej Bogurodzicy ) at ul. Św. Mikołaja 40 ( Nikolaistrasse ) in Breslau ( Wrocław ) goes back to a cemetery chapel built in 1286. In the 15th century it was expanded and rebuilt in the late Gothic style. In 1488 the Silesian Piast Duke Wenceslaus von Sagan was buried here. From 1525 to 1945 the church was Protestant. From 1741 to 1920 it was used as a garrison church.
The church was unusually richly decorated with carvings, wall and ceiling paintings. On the south exterior of the church was a statue of Saint Barbara . A special masterpiece of the late Gothic was the colored altar painting of St. Barbara's Church, the central part of which has been preserved and is now in the Polish National Museum in Warsaw. The wings of the altar have been lost since 1945.
The church building was badly damaged during the Battle of Wroclaw at the end of World War II . It was rebuilt and handed over to the Polish Orthodox community in 1963 .
Klieselseeger
The Barbarakirche has a massive bell tower. It is not known when it was fitted with a watch; but the more their divergent character compared to the other city clocks. When on June 24th, 1580 it struck half the Seiger, the Barbarauhr clock defiantly stayed with the old facility until December 26th, 1606, and it is not known which tradition it has always been 5 to 10 minutes earlier than the Rathausuhr beats. The Breslau vernacular calls it the Klieegerseeger (in German dumpling tiger ), claiming that when the housewife puts in the dumplings with the sound of the St. Barbara Church , they boil completely until the town hall clock strikes noon.
See also
literature
- Franz Landsberger : Breslau . Leipzig: Sea Wall 1926
- Kurt Henkel: The St. Barbara Church in Breslau . Ulm 1964
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silesian Yearbooks for the Humanities and Natural Sciences, 1924
- ^ Karl von Holtei: Schlesische Gedichte , 1905
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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 42 ″ N , 17 ° 1 ′ 26 ″ E