Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, Brno
Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul | ||
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Katedrála svatého Petra a Pavla | ||
Style Baroque, Gothic Revival | | |
Groundbreaking | 11th century | |
Completed | 1909 | |
Administration | ||
Diocese | Brno | |
Clergy | ||
Bishop(s) | Vojtěch Cikrle |
The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul (
History
The site of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul has housed a church since at least the 11th and 12th centuries; a Romanesque chapel was built there in about 1140, during the reign of Margrave Conrad II Oty. It contained a crypt (which now lies under the paving of the entrance to the current the church) built probably for the burial of an important local dignitary or as a court chapel. A larger church, possibly a Romanesque basilica with embryonic Gothic forms, was constructed there around the 1230s and dedicated to St. Peter. It was damaged, however, in a large fire that swept through the city of Brno in 1306. A cemetery with the Chapel of the Holy Trinity (Kaplí Nejsvětější Trojice) was constructed adjacent to the church in 1368. The first documentation of the patronage of both Saints Peter and Paul dates from 1378. [2]
The church was reconstructed again in the second quarter of the 15th century in the aftermath of the
The eighteenth century saw further renovations to the church take place, and in 1775–77 it became the seat of the new
The last major additions to the structure took place between 1901 and 1909, when the Viennese architect August Kirstein was brought in to design the twin Gothic towers that give the church its present monumental character. At the same time, the exterior saw the addition of the tombstones of the Brno bishops Václav Urban Stuffler and Vincent Josef Schrattenbach, as well as of several patrician families. Also added at the beginning of the century was the outer pulpit, the so-called "Kapistránka" to the left of the main entrance, named after the
Interior furnishings
The oldest elements of the interior equipment include a boxed tabernacle in the Marian Chapel dating from 1652, later altered in 1783 by the sculptor Ondřej Schweigl, and the marble body of the baptistery from 1656 by Simon Brandt. The church pews were created in 1738 by the carpenter Ondřej Romer, and confessionals dating from the 1840s were moved here from the Jesuit church in the late 1970s.[8] Some think the previous benches were made in 1654 by Petr Tobiáš Pacher.[9] There are two types of cabinets in the sacristy: some contain inlay work, probably by Jan Pelikán from 1717; the others are stylistically older and decorated with black profiled moldings.[10] The main altar is the work of August Prokop and Karl Woresch (1891). The side altars, the pulpit, the original main altar and other stucco decorations were created in the late Baroque style in the 1770s or 1780s in Schweigl's workshop. In 1909, the church was furnished with a new organ made by the Bratři Paštikové company from Žižkov. The sculptor Jiří Marek created modern Stations of the Cross.[11]
The "midday" chimes
Traditionally, the bells of the cathedral are rung at 11 o'clock in the morning instead of 12 noon. The reason for this, according to legend,[12] is that during the Thirty Years' War the invading Swedes had promised, when laying siege to Brno, that they would call off their attack if they had not succeeded in taking the city by midday on the 15th of August. The battle underway, some shrewd citizens decided to ring the bells an hour early on this date, fooling the Swedes into breaking off the siege and leaving empty-handed.
Religious services
- Sunday: 7.30 a.m., 9.00 a.m. & 10.30 a.m.
- Monday: 7.30 a.m.
- Tuesday: 7.30 a.m. & 19.00
- Wednesday: 7.30 a.m. & 17.30
- Thursday: 7.30 a.m. & 17.30
- Friday: 7.30 a.m. & 17.30
- Saturday: 7.30 a.m.
References
- ISBN 80-239-7745-8
- ^ "KATEDRÁLA SV. PETRA A PAVLA," Encyklopedie dějin města Brna, encyklopedie.brna.cz, 2004. [1] Accessed 5 May 2020.
- ISBN 80-902253-1-4.
- ^ "KATEDRÁLA SV. PETRA A PAVLA," (Accessed 5 May 2020).
- ^ "KATEDRÁLA SV. PETRA A PAVLA," (Accessed 5 May 2020).
- ^ PROF. AUGUST PROKOP," Encyklopedie dějin města Brna, encyklopedie.brna.cz, 2004. [2] (Accessed 23 June 2022).
- ^ "KATEDRÁLA SV. PETRA A PAVLA," (Accessed 5 May 2020).
- ^ Cecilie Hálová-Jahodová, Brno, stavební a umělecký vývoj města (Prague: Pražské nakladatelství V. Poláčka, 1947), p. 196.
- ^ "KATEDRÁLA SV. PETRA A PAVLA," (Accessed 5 May 2020), and Hálová-Jahodová.
- ^ Dominik Matus, "Knihovna a sakristie augustiniánů v Brně, dílo klášterního truhláře Bernarda Stöttnera". Batchelor's thesis, Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts, Brno, 2018. p. 130; and Hálová-Jahodová, ibid.
- ^ "KATEDRÁLA SV. PETRA A PAVLA," (Accessed 5 May 2020).
- ^ "GOtoBRNO - Katedrála sv. Petra a Pavla" [GOtoBRNO - Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul] (in Czech). TIC Brno (tourist information centre). Retrieved 28 July 2015.