St. Jacob's Church (Brno)
The St. Jacob's Church ( Kostel sv. Jakuba ) on Jacob's Square in Brno is the most important late Gothic building in the city. The medieval town church is still the parish church of the Catholic inner-city community.
History and architecture
The first written mention comes from the year 1228. The Romanesque church built at the beginning of the 13th century , which was mainly used by colonists from Germany and Flanders to celebrate their services, was built in the years 1510–1511 with the participation of Anton Pilgram through a three-aisled hall construction replaced and completed as a town church in 1592. Before the outbreak of the Hussite wars, the eastern side of the choir was covered with a net vault by the pilgram building hut . The church tower by Antonio Gabri rises 92 m high and was roofed in 1592. 1750–1766 the interior of the church was redesigned in Baroque style . Between 1871 and 1879 the interior was redesigned in the neo-Gothic style according to plans by the Viennese architect Heinrich von Ferstel . In the 1960s, changes were made on the proposal of Bohuslav Fuchs . In 1995 the church was declared a national cultural monument.
Furnishing
- Neo-Gothic main altar
- Marble altars, 1750–1766
- Gothic crucifix
- Pulpit, 1669
- Choir stalls, around 1700
- Reliefs (Crucifixion, Lamentation of Christ), 1518
- Tomb of Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches , defender of Brno against the Swedes in 1645, erected by Z. Kerker, 1722
- Organ by Jakob Ryschak from Troppau, 1692
Surroundings
Until the Josephine reform in 1784, which ordered the closure of all cemeteries in the city for hygienic reasons, there was a cemetery and several chapels around the church; only then was today's square built and the chapels were gradually dismantled. During excavations in recent years, the so-called Golden Fountain, which was mentioned as early as 1358, was discovered. An underground ossuary from the turn of the 17th to the 18th century was discovered near the church wall , which is said to be the second largest in Europe and is now open to the public.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 48 ″ N , 16 ° 36 ′ 30 ″ E