Martin's Rotunda

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St. Martin's Rotunda on Vyšehrad

The Rotunda of St. Martin (Czech Rotunda svatého Martina ) is located on the Vyšehrad Fortress in Prague . It is the only architectural monument of Vyšehrad that has been preserved in its original form and the oldest preserved rotunda in the city.

history

The Romanesque rotunda was probably built in the last third of the 11th century under Vratislav II , but the first written mention of the building dates from 1396. A semicircular apse decorated with pilaster strips is attached to the central building.

After the baroque fortress Vyšehrad was built, the church was secularized and served as a powder magazine. At the instigation of Karl Chotek von Chotkows , a planned demolition could be prevented. After 1875 the rotunda was renovated and returned to its original state, although the entrance on the west side was walled up and replaced by a neo-Romanesque portal in the south. The marble altar and the paintings on the inner walls, which take up motifs from the Vyšehrad Coronation Code (end of the 11th century), also date from this period.

Web links

Commons : Martinsrotunda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Rotunda on the pages of the Vyšehrad Chapter (Czech)
  2. ↑ Radomíra Sedládková. Architecture guide Prague . Ostfildern 1997. p. 28

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 49.2 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 17.5"  E