Saint Peter and Paul Chapel (Znojmo)

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The St. Peter and Paul Chapel was a chapel in the city of Znojmo (Znojmo) in the Czech Republic .

history

There are no documents available about the time or the reason for the construction of the St. Peter and Paul Chapel. There is, however, the assumption that the small chapel was originally intended to mark the boundary between the Christian and Jewish districts.

The first written mention of the building dates back to 1420. A goldsmith bequeathed money to the Saint Peter and Paul Chapel to finance the lighting with a lamp during the night and during holy masses. Later written certificates also mainly concern financial donations to the chapel. In 1577, for example, extensive repairs were carried out. Entries in the account books of the city of Znojmo lead to the assumption that the building was preserved by the city.

Until the Protestants took over the chapel, it is very likely that the services were held by priests from St. Nicholas' Church. Before 1580, Sebastian Freitag, in his capacity as abbot of Klosterbruck Abbey , protested that his monastery was denied access to the St. Peter and Paul Chapel, the Wenceslas Chapel, the St. Bernardine Chapel and other chapels in the city. On the orders of Emperor Rudolf II , a sovereign commission in Znojmo investigated the case in July 1579. As a partial success, the keys for the Wenceslas Chapel and the St. Niklas Church were handed over to him again.

Only after the Battle of the White Mountain on November 8, 1620 did the parish Saint Niklas get the Saint Peter and Paul Chapel back as a daughter chapel, which then developed into a meeting place for religious brotherhoods.

Under Emperor Joseph II , these brotherhoods were dissolved and the chapels that were seen as dispensable, including the St. Peter and Paul Chapel, were closed and desecrated. At first the city was interested in the chapel as a future theater, but it was probably too small for this purpose. In 1786 the former chapel was given to the Imperial and Royal Arar as a salt depository.

With the release of the salt trade in 1830, the current warehouse came back into the possession of the city, which used the building as a storage location for the city's fire extinguishers after the presbytery was demolished . After the Znojmo theater in the former chapel of the neighboring Clarissini monastery was expanded by a redout hall, the former chapel and an attached residential building were demolished in order to widen the access road.

In memory of the St. Peter and Paul Chapel that existed here, the square that was created by the demolition was first named St. Peter's Square , later Ottokar Square and currently Václavském náměstí ( Wenceslas Square ).

Several donations from neighbors of the new square made it possible in 1840 to relocate a fountain from the former Clariss convent here.

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literature

  • Anton Huebner, Viktor Huebner, Michael Netoliczka: Memories of the royal. City of Znojmo. According to the manuscripts left behind by the kk pen. District captain Mr. Anton Huebner, edited by Viktor Huebner and Michael Netoliczka. VIII. Delivery. Lenk Znojmo 1869.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hellmut Bornemann: Znaim - City on the Thaya, Amalthea Verlag, ISBN 3850025993