Vasa chapel

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Vasa chapel
View from the south

View from the south

Construction year: 1598
Inauguration: 1681
Style elements : Baroque
Client: Catholic Church
Location: 50 ° 3 '16.1 "  N , 19 ° 56' 7.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '16.1 "  N , 19 ° 56' 7.3"  E
Address: Wawel
Krakow
Lesser Poland , Poland
Purpose: Roman Catholic burial church
Diocese : Krakow
Wasa coat of arms
Sarcophagus Cardinal Johann Albert Wasas in the crypt under this chapel

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:

The following were once buried in the crypt below the chapel:

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

Web links

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