Martin's Church (Krakow)
| Martinskirche | |
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 View from Grodzka Street |
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| Construction year: | 1637 |
| Inauguration: | 1640 |
| Style elements : | Baroque |
| Client: | Catholic Church |
| Location: | 50 ° 3 '21.3 " N , 19 ° 56' 18.5" E |
| Address: | ul.Grodzka 56 Krakow Poland |
| Purpose: | Lutheran parish church |
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The Martinskirche ( Polish Kościół św. Marcina ) in Kraków is an Evangelical-Augsburg church at Grodzka Street 56, in the southern part of Kraków's Old Town , specifically its Okół district .
history
The first church on this site was built in the 12th century in Romanesque style. It was damaged during the Mongol storm in the 13th century. The current church building was built from 1637 to 1640 for the Discalced Carmelites by Giovanni Trevano . The nuns left the monastery and church in 1787 when they moved to the monastery at the Theresienkirche . In 1816 the church was handed over to the Lutherans , the parish belonged to the superintendent of AB Galicia . In 1921 Kraków had 726 evangelical Protestants (including Reformed ), but in the next year there was a distinction between ethnic Poles (in the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , in 1937 around 1,300 souls, mostly from Cieszyn Silesia ) and Germans (in the Evangelical Church Augsburg and Helvetic Confessions in Lesser Poland , in 1937 by 300 members) separated. During the Second World War, the Protestants had to visit another church, and from 1945 they used St. Martin's Church again.
Geographical location
The church is located in the southern part of Kraków's Old Town in the Okół district, one of the oldest districts in Kraków.
