Dubrovnik Cathedral

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Dubrovnik Cathedral
Interior

The Cathedral of Dubrovnik ( Croat. Katedrala Uznesenju Blažene Djevice Marije na nebo - "Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven "; Velika Gospa for short ) is the episcopal church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dubrovnik in the Croatian city ​​of Dubrovnik . The baroque basilica , built between 1672 and 1713 in the old town of Dubrovnik , has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979 .

history

Today's cathedral had a Romanesque predecessor. Its origin connects the local tradition with the return of Richard the Lionheart from the third crusade in 1192. On the trip through the Adriatic he was shipwrecked and barely reached the island of Lokrum off Dubrovnik. In gratitude for the rescue, he financed the construction of the cathedral.

During restoration work in the cathedral in 1981, much older building remains were found, which are said to date back to the early medieval founding time of the Dubrovnik diocese.

In 1667, Dubrovnik was hit by a devastating earthquake that destroyed large parts of the city. Stjepan Gradić (1613–1683) was particularly committed to the reconstruction . The Dubrovnik scholar had been the envoy of the Republic of Ragusa to the Holy See from 1653 , an employee of the Curia and custodian of the Vatican Library . He was able to build on the interest that the popes had always shown in the advanced post of the Latin Church on the border with Orthodoxy and the Ottoman Empire , and also mobilized other European courts for his hometown.

Just five years after the earthquake, a complete new construction of the cathedral in the style of the Roman Baroque, based on plans by Andrea Buffalini from Urbino, began. Four decades passed before it was completed.

Architecture and equipment

The cathedral is a three-aisled basilica with a transept and a slim crossing dome . The nave has four bays , the flat choir three. The portal facade faces east, towards the harbor. It is richly decorated with columns, gables, architraves and statues.

The interior is painted white and decorated with decorative beams, arches and capitals . The furnishings from the 18th century include ornate altars. In the cathedral treasury there are valuable reliquaries from the time before the earthquake, including skull and hand relics of the city ​​patron St. Blaise ( sv. Vlaho ).

organ

A first organ is documented as early as 1440 . Vincenca Colombi (Venice) built a new instrument with seven registers in 1523–1524 . In the baroque period a new organ with a new prospectus was built. Tito Tonoli (Brescia) built a new organ in the old case in 1880 and Josip Brandl (Maribor) in 1937. This organ was moved to the Jesuit Church of St. Ignatius in 1975.

Today's organ of the cathedral was built in 1987 by the Italian organ builder Gustavo Zanin and has the following disposition :

I Manual C-c 4
1. Principals 16 ′
2. Principals 8th'
3. Ottava 4 ′
4th Quintadecima 2 ′
5. Ripieno IV
6th Sesquialtera II
7th Cornocamoscio 8th'
8th. Cromorno 8th'
II Manual C – c 4
9. Principals 8th'
10. Bordone 8th'
11. Ottava 4 ′
12. Decimaseconda 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
13. Quintadecima 2 ′
14th Decima nona 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Vigesimaseconda 1'
16. Ripieno V
17th Voce umana 8th'
18th Tromba 8th'
III Manual C – c 4
19th Bordone 16 ′
20th Bordone 8th'
21st viola 8th'
22nd Voce celeste 8th'
23. Principals 4 ′
24. Flauto 4 ′
25th Nazardo 2 2 ⁄ 3  '
26th Silvestre 2 ′
27. Ripieno IV
28. oboe 8th'
Pedal C – g 1
29 Principals 16 ′
30th Bordone 16 ′
31. Subbasso 16 ′
32. Contrabasso 16 ′
33. Quintaton 10 2 ⁄ 3  '
34. Basso 8th'
35. Bordone 8th'
36. Ottava 4 ′
37. Fagotto 16 ′
38. Tromba 8th'
39. Clarone 4 ′

Web links

Commons : Dubrovnik Cathedral  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.die-orgelseite.de: Organ in Dubrovnik Katedrala , accessed on May 15, 2018.

Coordinates: 42 ° 38 ′ 23.7 "  N , 18 ° 6 ′ 37.9"  E