St. Catherine (Volary)

Parish Church of St. Catherine in Volary

Church floor plan

View from the choir to the entrance and the organ, the Tusset Chapel is on the left

The Tusset Chapel, below left the miraculous image from Tusset

The parish church of St. Katharina ( Czech Kostel svaté Kateřiny Alexandrijské ) is a church building consecrated to St. Catherine of Alexandria in Volary in Okres Prachatice in South Bohemia in the Czech Republic . The church is protected as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic.

history

At the location of the church in the center of Volary there was originally an early Gothic building, which was first mentioned in 1496 and destroyed in 1688. The Italian builder Giovanni Domenico Canevalle built a new church in the Baroque style on the foundations of this building . Its inauguration took place on October 8, 1690.

From the original church, which was smaller, the lower part of the church tower with a square floor plan has been preserved. It is attached to the church building on the north side. In 1724 the tower was raised by more than six meters to make the bells more audible.

The church burned down in 1715, 1754 and 1863, but was always renewed or expanded. In 1754 the church burned down completely after a lightning strike. A side chapel in the same shape as the choir was added to the newly built nave in 1756 on the south side , but with a length of 6 meters and a width of about 5 meters, it is slightly smaller than this. This chapel, originally called St. Johannes Nepomuk Chapel, is now called the Tusset Chapel after a miraculous image from the pilgrimage chapel of Our Lady in the nearby village of Stožec (German: Tusset ) found its new location.

The current shape of the church emerged after the last fire in 1863. In the same year a side altar and an altar, both from the first half of the 18th century, were moved from the Upper Austrian Schlägl Abbey to the Tusset Chapel.

In 1973 the original of the tower clock was transferred to the city museum of Volary and replaced by an electrically operated clockwork. The last major restoration of the church was carried out in 2000. In September 2006 the church tower was opened to the public for the first time.

description

Exterior description

The entrance of the church building to the east is on the west side and can be reached from two sides via a staircase. A wrought-iron crucifix is attached to the banister. The west facade above the entrance area bears the Latin inscription Venite adoremus (German: "Come, let's adore").

A sundial adorns the southern outer wall of the Tusset Chapel. The sacristy is located next to the church tower on the north side of the chancel.

Inside description

On the west side there are two galleries above the entrance area . The organ stands on the lower, larger gallery . Eight large-format oil paintings with Stations of the Cross are attached to the wooden parapet of the organ gallery. Two more oil paintings from the Stations of the Cross cycle are on the north wall of the nave next to an older carved pulpit with a richly carved sound cover , which, however, is not accessible.

The two elders from Schlägl Abbey stand in the Tusset Chapel. The miraculous image from Tusset hangs on the side walls, as well as four other oil paintings with Stations of the Cross and large, colored wooden sculptures depicting Mary, Joseph and two other saints.

organ

The Breinbauer organ from 1869

The organ of the church was built in 1869 by Josef Breinbauer in Ottensheim . Your current disposition is:

Major work C – c 3 1. Principals 8th' 2. Dumped 8th' 3. Gamba 8th' 4th Salicional 8th' 5. Aeolina 8th' 6th Octava 4 ′ 7th Flauto 4 ′ 8th. Quinta 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 10. Octava 2 ′

Pedals C-a 11. Sub bass 16 ′ 12. Violon 8th' 13. cello 8th'

literature

• František Mareš, Jan Sedláček: Soupis památek historických a uměleckých v království Českém . Prague 1913, ISBN 80-238-0141-4 , pp. 353-362 (on- line ).
• Volary - Kostel sv. Kateøiny Soupis památek, 38. Politický okres prachatický (1913). In: depositum.cz. Pp. 353–356 , accessed on March 8, 2020 (cz, lists of monuments on depositum.cz, digitized libraries of Charles University in Prague). 

Web links

Commons : St. Katharina (Volary)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kostel svaté Kateřiny Alexandrijské. Brief description (Czech)
• Website of the Roman Catholic Parish Volary (Czech)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Pavel Vitek: kostel sv. Kateřiny. August 4, 2006, Retrieved March 8, 2020 (Czech). 
2. ↑ The Tusset Chapel. In: tussetkapelle.de. Retrieved March 8, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Bohuslav Laněk: Varhany Volarska. A hudební život v kostele sv. Kateřiny ve Volarech. City administration Volary, Volary 2018, ISBN 978-80-270-4285-2 , p. 17 f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '41.6 "  N , 13 ° 53' 33.4"  E