Kalocsa Cathedral
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The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in the Hungarian city of Kalocsa is the episcopal church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kalocsa-Kecskemét .
The first church was built here as early as 1050, but it was destroyed several times over the centuries. The plans for today's baroque building on the remains of the previous buildings probably came from Andreas Mayerhoffer . The construction time of the church is set between 1735 and 1754. The facade, flanked by two towers, originally showed the statues of the Virgin Mary and the apostles Peter and Paul . In 2007 the two apostles were removed.
The furnishings of the church dragged on until 1770, but had to be restored in 1816 after a fire. The stucco work on the ceiling was made by Italian masters, the high altar painting, which shows the Assumption of Mary , was made by Leopold Kupelwieser from Vienna . The figures before the high altar are the kings Stephen I and Ladislaus I represent.
The original organ, on which Franz Liszt also played, was installed by the Angster company from Pécs . During the First World War it had to be dismantled for military purposes and it was not reconstructed until 1985. It has 64 registers with 3 manuals and 4668 pipes .
Dimensions of the cathedral:
- Tower height: 65 m
- Length: 64 m
- Width: 24 m
literature
- Balázs Dercsényi among others: Catholic churches in Hungary. Verlag Hegyi & Társa, Budapest 1991, pp. 205-208, 278f
Web links
- puszta.com (English)
Coordinates: 46 ° 31 ′ 48 ″ N , 18 ° 58 ′ 25.2 ″ E