Vasa chapel
Vasa chapel | |
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View from the south |
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Construction year: | 1598 |
Inauguration: | 1681 |
Style elements : | Baroque |
Client: | Catholic Church |
Location: | 50 ° 3 '16.1 " N , 19 ° 56' 7.3" E |
Address: |
Wawel Krakow Lesser Poland , Poland |
Purpose: | Roman Catholic burial church |
Diocese : | Krakow |
The Vasa Chapel is one of the 19 chapels that surround the Kraków Cathedral .
history
The Romanesque Peter and Paul Chapel from the first half of the 13th century was located in the place of the chapel. The reason for the demolition of the old and the construction of the new chapel was the death of Queen Anna Habsburg in 1598. King Sigismund III. Vasa decided to bury her in a mausoleum of his dynasty at Wawel Cathedral, modeled on Sigismund I the Elder . The crypt below the chapel was completed in 1644, but the Peter and Paul Chapel was not demolished until 1664. The new construction of the chapel under Jan Chryzostom Bodzanta was completed in 1681. The figures of Saints Ladislaus and Sigismund were placed on the sides of the dome .
crypt
Today there are six sarcophagi in the crypt below the chapel:
- Constanze of Austria , Queen of Poland (1588–1631) - second wife of King Sigismund III.
- Sigismund III, King of Sweden and Poland (1566–1632)
- Prince Johann Albert Wasa , Cardinal (1612–1634) - son of King Sigismund III.
- Prince Johann Sigismund Wasa (1652–1652) - son of King John II Casimir
- Luisa Maria Gonzaga , Queen of Poland (1611–1667) - wife of King Ladislaus IV and John II Casimir
- John II Casimir, King of Poland (1609–1672)
The following were once buried in the crypt below the chapel:
- Bishop Jan Prandota (1266, reburied here 1639)
- Queen Cäcilia Renata (buried here in 1644, today in the crypt of Ladislaus IV. )
- Queen Anna Habsburg (reburied here in 1644, today in the crypt under the southern ambulatory )
- Crown Prince Alexander Karl Wasa (reburied here in 1644, today in the crypt under the southern ambulatory )
- Crown Prince Sigismund Kasimir Wasa (buried here in 1647, today in the crypt of Ladislaus IV. )
- King Ladislaus IV. (Buried here 1649, today in the crypt of Ladislaus IV. )
- Crown Prince Karl Ferdinand Wasa (1655, only cenotaph)
inner space
The baroque interior is lined with black Dębnicki marble and white Kielce marble . The bronze entrance grille was cast by Micheal Weinhold in Danzig in 1673.
source
- Michał Rożek: Krakowska katedra na Wawelu . Wydawnictwo św. Stanisława BM Archidiecezji Krakowskiej, Kraków 1989