St. Matthias (Wroclaw)
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The Roman Catholic Rectorate Church of St. Matthias is a Gothic church building in the center of Wroclaw .
history
The church was built around 1250 as a monastery church of the Wroclaw branch of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star . The donor was Duchess Anna , the widow of Henry the Pious , who also spent her last years here. The monastery complex included a hospital for the sick, poor and orphans.
On June 12, 1653, Johannes Scheffler was accepted into the Catholic Church in St. Matthias and received the company name Angelus at confirmation . He spent the last decade of his life in the Matthias Abbey as a doctor for the poor and was buried in the church's crypt after his death in 1677.
The Kreuzherren also looked after the parish of the same name . After the abolition of the monastery in 1810, St. Matthias remained the parish church, but was replaced in this function in 1819 by the larger former Jesuit church , which has since been called Matthias Church. The Matthias Gymnasium was housed in the convent building from 1811 to 1945 , and since then the Ossolineum .
In 1854 Johannes Schneider became curate and from 1869 until his death in 1876 he was pastor of St. Matthias.
In the Second World War badly damaged the church was restored originalnah later.
Architecture and equipment
St. Matthias is a cross-shaped hall church made of brick . The bell tower is in the southeast corner. Three of the four cross arms close with polygonal apses . From the historical equipment are u. a. a renaissance pulpit and several baroque altars have been preserved. Joseph Mattersberger created the statues of the apostles Peter and Paul in 1818.
Web links
- History of the Church and Monastery (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de
- ↑ breslau-wroclaw.de ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '47.3 " N , 17 ° 2' 10.4" E