City: The Church of St. Ludmila, more gothic is not Ben Blowin do one, which is in the extreme. Blowin 'in a church that shines with its monumental architecture, which also shines with its historical insignificance. You can not miss the eye, it is huge, one of the largest churches in our small capital, place of peace (
" náměstí Míru " ): church St. Ludmila, visible from the Alps on Google Earth in good weather. And because he did not throw even with the water in the wine, well the shot, I'll do a quick publish.
St. Ludmila was the grandmother of our patron saint of Bohemia, St. Wenceslas
, and she was strangled with scarf made by the mother thereof,
"Drahomír ze Stodor" 's wife his son
" Vratislav " , father of St Wenceslas
(you follow?).
Although the legend of St. Ludmila (good Catholic), St. Wenceslas (high in good Catholic its great good Catholic mother) of
"Drahomír" (darn pagan) and the scarf of crime ... despite all stink Catholic intoxication at the expense of historical truth, it (the legend went) is extremely inked in memory of the country (more details in
" Flees in provincia Boemorum " , or "he Once in the kingdom of Bohemia "). So our capital had to have at least one church dedicated to the good Saint (Catholic), and this opportunity presented itself to the people of Prague in the late nineteenth century. Hey, quick digression. The fact that St. Ludmila and her daughter could not Blair is known. And as said before, the race of priests went to this fact on behalf of the eternal quarrel pagan-Catholic victory sort of Catholicism (good) about paganism (bad). Historical mistake and proselytizing primitive. After putting the little pieces behind each other, experts have come to revolutionary conclusions, but 'achement consistent, that illuminate a little differently when even the legend of the priests. According to them (the experts)
"Drahomír" was not the natural mother of St Wenceslas, but his stepmother. When he was small, the patron saint lost his mother (unknown) and was raised by his grandmother (St. Ludmila). His dad
"Vratislav" (then reigning prince of Bohemia) remarried (with
"Drahomír" ) and had several ry mountain, which
"Boleslav" (the cruel) who subsequently murdered his own brother, reigning St Wenceslas . In fact the quarrel between the two chicks had no other purpose than to bring to power his favorite ry mountain (St Wenceslas in St. Ludmila, and
"Boleslav" for
"Drahomír" ).
All this explains quite readily the quarrels of succession to the death of
"Vratislav" , the sidelining of the femicide by his son who was not (his son), brother of assassinated by his brother (who was only half), and Saxon and Bavarian intervention in settling the estate. In fact it was all trivial political dispute, and had little to do with religion (if not political). And to close the parentheses, even though St. Ludmila was not in his debut on the calendars Goodyear Vatican. Indeed, the "Poor old woman and her husband
" Bořivoj " received the baptism of St. Methodius in person, and vangélisateur preacher in the vernacular rather than Latin, which was not particularly taste of Roman popes. So it took more than 150 years after his death (in 921) so that does not develop the cult of St. Ludmila (late eleventh century), and had to wait 50 more years so that it is canonized ( in 1143, sometimes 1144) and finally printed in the official hagiography of Rome. In this period the country was in serious lack of local saints as demand was growing, so we had to quickly meet the need to develop the business in Bohemia, and was canonized with a lot of Maccabees Hallelujah not necessarily deserving little they met at least 20% of the needs of the post (Latin power required).
Okay, but back to our church. So early, in the town of
" Vinohrady " there was no church, and the residents had to travel to the town of
" Vršovice " in the Church of St. Mari Magdalene (now St Nicolas at the Gothic reconstruction of 1374) to assist in worship, for those who wanted (to attend worship). After the Battle of White Mountain, the Jesuits took charge of the spiritual needs of indigenous and worship took place from the second half of the eighteenth century in the small
" Chaplet of the Holy Family " at the bottom of the stairs
"Nusle" . But the population growing, the building became cramped, and he soon had to think bigger. Yep. While
"Vinohrady" was for centuries an empty field with only a few hectares of vineyards, the town became independent (from Prague) in 1849, and was a real estate boom as humans developed in 1879, she became city independent. In 1884, they founded the parish of St. Ludmila, and in 1885 it s'aperçu we had no church (among other things, because we did no high speed internet either).
"Oh yeah, that asshole" exclaimed the then mayor (oh yeah again ...) is also temporarily celebrated in the chapel of the village school of Belgium Street.
Lorsqu'icelle ditto became cramped, we moved the St. kit in the chapel of the local school
"Na Smetance" . Lorsqu'icelle became too cramped ditto, parishioners finally made out that it might be to build a suitable building for Catholic worship, because the removal from school to school would eventually tire (at best) or even develop predispositions pedophiles (at worst) with flock (Ireland was still far from Bohemia in the nineteenth century, but already we took care ...). Began a propaganda campaign in favor of building up a liberal church
Purkinje (
"Purkyňově náměstí" today Peace Square), a campaign that ended Nov. 8, 1888 by accepting the project by the city council. On 25 November the same year, day of St. Catherine (but it could have been St Andrew, it would have changed anything), the archevêquécardinal
" Francis Schönborn (Buchheim-Wolfsthal) " (Fanfoue said Beau was born) brushes laying the first brick in the holy water, made some fart
" Benedictio Dei omnipotent " on the heads of notables, and after swallowed his horn merguez dumplings-mayo-time in 3 of 4 movements, escaped to Austria to attend the final at Slavia-Sparta Stadium
" Strahov " . The construction could begin.
also be noted that the association
support the construction of the Votive Church of St. Ludmila royal vineyards (
"Vinohrady" = vineyards designation remains in force to remember the location in this area of vineyards from Burgundy by the good King Charles IV in the fourteenth century) was a mission to promote the project to sponsors as individual institutions, and some 1000 members who composed it had great merit in the collection of financial funds. So the construction was well underway, so rife that the Emperor came in person (by train) to put an eye on the site in 1891. Francis Joseph exclaimed
"ach ja, sehr schön, wirklich sehr gut gemacht, wir finden" . Then he clenched his paws notables, and after swallowing his horn merguez dumplings-mayo-time in 3 of 4 movements, escaped to Austria to attend the opening of the great
" general exposure " organized in honor of the centennial of the first Industrial Exhibition of 1791. Four years later, only the structural work was finished, and October 8, 1893, we made the reviendre archevêquécardinal
" Fanfoue " for the umpteenth ceremony. This time our guy became surround the bishops of Prague (Bohemia)
"Ferdinand Kalous" and
"Olomouc" (Moravia)
"František Bauer" , because the shindig was going to be hell, and they should under no circumstances miss the feast (or cheerleaders). Bamboula and was impressive.
Set to music by the choirs of the Benedictine monastery of Emmaus
, and directed by pom-pom-nuns of St. Agnes Convent, some 80,000 people attended. However only 15,000 privileged could visit the new home of the tapper (vouis, I know, "lord" I should write), but would like my cleaning lady said, we shall return when it's finished, because as the curtains are not placed in the windows ... This time the prelates had no other obligations elsewhere, so they remained until the end of the fenced teuf they jovially to 22h in order to comply with the regulations on noise at night by singing "Oh the little white wine ...", more appropriate in the circumstances than the traditional
Te Deum laudanus ... " .
And now some words about the building itself. Architecture buffs will no doubt recognized the trend to neo-Gothic style in northern Germany. That's all brick, and it's
" Josef Mocker " any spat with the advantage this time he screwed up anything, saw it was the "from scratch". If you read my published since the beginning (and I am grateful to you), then you know that the Seep (Joseph) néogothisa countless buildings in Prague and throughout the country. Yet some ... a lot ... some argue that its "interventions" on these monuments were rather unfortunate, and that their restoration (often néogothisation) held over from the cleaning, sanitation or sterilization of the original style removing forever the secular characteristics.
Well, bye, you know what was written by historian and writer
Pavel Nauman " about not architect:
"all his work is a kind of panoptic thanatocracy Gothic. Se are stillborn, decorations and artwork sheet" . Is severe and final j'dis me. And therefore the design, project management, in fact, was the Seep. But the construction, project management, in fact, was the
"Antonín Turek" . The latter name did you say probably not much, because he was the architect in the shadow of Architects (see
Vinohrady Vodarny ",
" divadlo Vinohrady " or
" škola Na Smetance " since I told you spoken), however he made a fantastic project itself: the reconstruction of a factory insignificant fabulous halls (commercial) art nouveau (
Vinohrady trznice "). The building still exists and now houses a shopping complex (duh), middle grade, but I urge the fans of this wonderful art nouveau to visit this building, it is splendid
. And now a story for those who know something about Vienna (Austria, for those who do not really know). I read about our church, she was inspired by the church of St. Othmar
Vienna . Without dec only a stuffed badger was able to assert such a couillonnerie. First St. Othmar has only one tower, which is more central. And then, because it is not the same thing since it's totally different.
Much to the limit,
Rudolfsheim Kirche could serve as a model, but such, must be blind right eye not to perceive that there is only one tower left (although 2 were scheduled on the plans). In short, our Church of St. Ludmila has 2 side towers with a height of 60 m (each) of square surface and base width substantially equivalent to the pediment, which gives them a massive and imposing effect, however, tapered by 5 floors which are tightened by giving the entire movement reaches skyward. Each tower has its summit in a clock, and ends with an octagonal spire. Above the crossing is another small winery called turret not how (sanctussier? In Czech it
"Sanktusník" ) containing a small bell used in the Sanctus (
"Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth ... "). The body of the building is a three-ship classic cross-shaped, with a length of 50 m and a width of 30 m. Building material is brick, cement and sweat of hair from the Portuguese. Otherwise the distinctive and individual (but should be the place to view it) is the staircase, to the delight of honeymooners, junky and pigeons (dunno if it was the original intention of Joseph?).
Taking the decor, because there is more to say on this subject. Above the stairs, then, is a portal of entry, above which is still a tympanum (portal).
Amid Jesus blessing the married, junky and pigeons. On the sides, St Wenceslas and St Ludmila kneeling in adoration before the son of god. Above this beautiful mural in a circle, and God the Holy Spirit in the guise of a dove (because a sculptural representation St mind is so complicated that represent a nun's fart, takes real talent to that). It is the work of
" Josef Vaclav Myslbek " , one of the most renowned sculptors of our country, which everybody knows at least the St. Wenceslas on his nag to the top of the square of the same name (Wenceslas not nag, the name of the place). On the sides of the gate are two niches with statues in two lateral (side, type). The first represents
St Procopius , Work
"František Hergesel (son)" (not specifically known, he carved the copy of St Yves on Charles Bridge [Original
"Matias Bernard Braun" ] or some statues on the municipal savings bank known any tourist who comes down from the Wenceslas Square to the Old Town [
"Městská spořitelna pražská, Rytirska 29" ], or some gargoyles on the new western section of St. Vitus Cathedral
our ).
The second statue of St Adalbert
, and it is a sculpture
"Antonín Procházka" (Not specifically known, except that he is the co-author of two titans of the portal of entry to Prague Castle [1902], or with his buddy last
"František Hergesel (son)" , statues
of the facade of City Hall "Louny" ). Then, if you really really look up, above the canopy, you'll see another eardrum with a different niche with a St. Ludmila in (duh), work
" Ludvík Šimek " (better known in Jungmann particular for its namesake in the square end of the street
Narodni " or her knight
" Bruncvík " under the Charles Bridge, where you bend the bridge to the shore side
"Kampa" , or the St Wenceslas in Prague Castle, St Georges place in the top corner of the new Provost [
architect Josef Mocker " immer noch]). Now if you go around the church, both ends of the transept (still out) has its own drum with its own niche and its own statue. The North is thus by St. Cyril
"Bernard Otto Seeling" (author of a few trifles in the Rudolfinum and
St Pierrépaul to
"Vysehrad" ...), and South St Methodius (oh yeah?) the same sculptor. Well, z'avez seen everything from the outside? So hop, we go inside.
Inside is beautifully painted, especially in the main aisle. Now careful, because according to my sources, these paintings are of a certain Viennese artist named
"Johann Jobst" . Hmm ... Perhaps, except that I have found no trace of this guy. But then none at all. So, either there was another name, another name, or 2, or frankly my sources are wrong ... In short, what is safe (because it's obvious) what are the themes. The first is the popular saints of our country: one can see (among others) St John Nepomuk, the Cyril and my methods, St. Vitus and St. Zikmund, St Agnes, St Ivan and rarer than 9parce Moravian), St John
"Sarkander" on which you can read more details in previous releases
. Worse is the theme of characters from the old test lover: you can see (among others) Daniel, Jeremiah, Isaac, Abraham, Ezekiel, Noah Tsetta é ... The same author that I'm not sure it was called thus there is a series of 9 tables dedicated to St. Ludmila on the themes of his life: St. Ludmila visit prisoners, St. Ludmila redeems sinners, St. Ludmila cares for orphans, St. Ludmila built shrines, St. Ludmila teaches knowledge to St. Wenceslas, St. Ludmila trimming their toenails, St. Ludmila merguez eaten at the feast of onion, St. Ludmila shaves her legs in the shower before donning his tights, and St. Ludmila strangled to die stabbed, being short survey.
The central altar shaped canopy Revival is a work of
"Čeněk Vosmík" (Atlas supporting the globe on his shoulders at the central station, a few copies of statues of Charles Bridge originally
"Brokoff" fecit ...) on an idea 'achement original
Josef Mocker " noch einmal.
The kit consists of a statue of St. Ludmila (the back again), a crucifix of Jesus, and a medallion with God the Father within. In 1922, we completed the equipment of the church with an altar on the left side. This consists of a virgin Mary on her throne, the baby Jesus in her arms, both surrounded by St. Ludmila (east across the former), St Wenceslas (the room) of St. Adalbert (near the lamppost), St Procopius (smoking a cigarette), St. Agnes (seen her buttocks) and St. John Nepomuk (who find it obscene, you see Ste buttocks ...). In the background is a painting monothematic tripicturale: Coronation of the Virgin, the Annunciation (the virgin) and visitation (the virgin). But I can not remember the name of his dauber (paint). In contrast to this altar secondary side of the Epistle, is another side altar representing zévangélisateurs St Cyriléméthode, and their deputy, a bas relief evoking the blessing of the Roman liturgy Slav, and the baptism of St. Ludmila and her husband
"Bořivoj" . The contracting authority is
"Štěpán Zalesak" (not too well known Off Republic, but extremely prolific sculptor in his own country, mostly in religious art), while project management is
"Jan Kastner" and some
"Lukavsky" which I know nothing. It's like the pulpit. It is the work of a carpenter named
"Zik" or
"Zika" , but I found nothing in my encyclopedias about it. It would also be so insignificant that the 4 evangelists were inspired
"Antonín Procházka" , and name of
"Zika" (apparently
"Jiljí Zika" ). And finally on the altars, there are still 2 in the nave altars dedicated to St Joseph and St Anthony that I draw your attention to the following anecdote.
My hagiographic literature and iconography are constantly reminded that these two saints (Joseph Anthony) are often depicted carrying the baby Jesus in their arms (going to his little burp), by
"their love it ". You make me wonder how we will represent the Irish bishops, for their love for ... brief ...
Worse are the stained glass. While the guides rave over, colors, etc. ... Personally ... finally good. They represent the saints (duh), especially (more saints saints) the windows of the transept, representing the martyrs of St. Ludmila and St. Wenceslas. I do not know who is the author, especially since some windows do not have survived the Allied bombing of the end of World War II. By cons according to sources, the themes were inspired by the greatest artists of the time, kind
" František Zenisek " ,
"František Urban" (the splendid interior paintings of St
Pierrépaul of "Vysehrad" )
"František Sequens" or "Adolf Liebscher" (for François change). For lack of dough, the windows were funded by benevolent benefactors whose long list is preserved by the city council, in case you never know where that sometimes it could be used one day, like.
So I'll spare you the details of the list, but we find a future mayor, Lobko (those are everywhere, too), a dean of the local parish, the serving brothers (Order of Malta?) , spouses (in the head?) and fellows.
After its construction, the church bells were 5 (6 with the priest). St. Ludmila a nearly 3 tons, a St Wenceslas of 1.3 t, St Adalbert of 800 kg, 530 kg of St Procopius, and a small Virgin Mary of 78 kg. All 5 came out of the workshop bell maker
"Diepold" , and none survived the requisitions of the 2 wars. Finally, if little Mary, but she Fela after the First World War and was cast. In 1925, we gave the bells atop St. Ludmila, this time workshops
"Herold" of
"Chomutov" . Same, war, requisition, and only a small alarm bell saw the release. It was not until 1993, we relocated to a new bell of St Wenceslas, apparently private donation, such
"hey, I have a big bell at home and winery does not do anything. Ben gonna do make gifts to the parish. In any case i can not even play after 22h, then hey, all I with it food and maintenance costs qu'ça as much profit has qu'ça someone ". Sympa me j 'say. But the bell was not private enough fuss, so we installed two others from the church of the Sacred Heart which was doing too much (of fuss). And speaking of noise, well, let's talk a little organ (no, I'm kidding, I'm a big fan of church organ music, especially in sauce with zairelles in that plot). This organ is of historical value as musical invaluable, since it is the last major organ
Emanuel Štěpán Petr " still operating in its original condition (organ, Etienne Emanuel Peter, he is dead for a couple of weeks).
aillant pipes survived the requisitions of the 2 world wars, one can still hear her tone change, of romantic influence (late nineteenth century). Built in 1898 as opus number 117, consists of 3000 pipes, 3 manuals and pedal (foot keyboard) with 46 registers knows when to play it. In addition to its sonic qualities, it also presents technical elements that many organs do not always possess several decades later: air assist commands (like power steering), combinations of mechanical memory registers, or driver side heated seat to buttock vigorous winters.
In 1974, our comrades con-Communists began construction in the subway, and the church was closed for long. Was it to avoid an accident, because the hole in the tunnel going damn near the foundation of the house to Goodlord? In any case, such precautions are not on the agenda at the moment with the construction of
Blanka tunnel, then it would be darn welcome. In short, we took the opportunity to restore the interior. In 1980 we put a new slate roof Moravia (that they do not say we do not like them, the Moravians), and according to some sources, the comrades engineers con-Communists made plans long restorations until 2000. Today, that term seems completely absurd, but in the context of the five-year plan before, under the predictive powers of a tractor driver, and the experimental conditions of the building available to the team of agricultural kolkhoz, honestly, 20 years it might even seem almost optimistic look more closely.
Then a miracle or not (we are in a church), the work advanced so that by winter 1984, the southern nave church was completed, and there could celebrate midnight mass in the honor of Comrade Jesus. It took however until 1992 (not 2000) so that everything is finished. And September 16 this year (not this one, that of there, 1992), cardinalarchevêquaujourduinenretraite
" Miloslav Vlk " ask the curtains came under "Allah akbar" the faithful.
And now a few stories, anecdotes and other curiosities. According to my sources, after the shindig in 1893 archevêquécardinal
" František Schönborn " , it (he?) Did move the relics of St Wenceslas and St Ludmila in our church. Hmm ... not sure because today is St. Ludmila in the St Georges
(at Castle) since the Xth century, while based in our St Wenceslas Cathedral St. Vitus
(ditto the Castle) from the Xth Century (ditto). And outside the famous flight of 1142 (see
" Canonici Wissegradensis continuatio Cosmae " , very last paragraph), when the mason stonemason and Werner (
"Wernherus" ) stole a part of the relics of St Ludmila (but his son reported), I do not remember the relics of two saints would have stayed elsewhere (not even on the Expo Shanghai, 2010).
So if they were based in St. Ludmila, this is really pending, history of change of air, but no more. Otherwise among the marriages celebrated writer
" Jaroslav Hašek " and politician
"Edvard Beneš " swore loyalty to their respective wives in the church of St Ludmila. Since its construction, the building was electrified, as the candles are just for show, just to occupy the sexton. During the millennium of the death of St Wenceslas in 1929 (now 1935, because before, it was believed that St Wenceslas died in 929, but now we know that it was 935), Archbishop of Prague
"František Kordač" raised his parish (as the church) in archidoyenné. Worse is it.
So as stated at the outset, St. Ludmila is not exclusive. Kind if you make over the impasse, your neighbors do not throw stones either. Especially that, like all churches the country (excluding hyper downtown Prague, tourism requires), it is usually closed. And for some it is open, it is forbidden to photograph.
Close and ban monuments to photograph everywhere, it's an old Czech tradition dating back to the ancestor
Čech, who was said like this:
"photographed point you do anything, Do not suffer a nothing open to tourists, you did not smile to anyone even if it leaves the tip in Euro: thou shalt not bear anything that could give pleasure to your neighbor (this context) " then add another
" and if ever you had the idea hinder one of these commandments my pig, even a surreptitious glance blur right eye, I tell you not savatée ass that makes you j'viendrai 'my pointy slippers. " balls! And since, well, it's like that here in the Czech Republic. St. Ludmila Otherwise, you'll find there: 50 ° 4'31 .672 "N, 14 ° 26'13 .364" E.
