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City: The Rotunda of St. Croix minor

So as I told myself that I could not speak as churches either, so I said I was gonna tell you about this time a rotunda. In fact, as already mentioned in various published, rotundas Romance, it remains 3 bits standing in Prague to St. Martin "Vysehrad" , that of St. Longinus (originally St Etienne, cf. publish my ), and of the Holy Cross Minor, that I'm going to talk about today.

I had often been mentioned in several published too, but I expected to have some pictures of the inside before a doing a full article, which took a little time, given the fact (often still referred ) that the churches of Prague (outside of the 5 most popular) are rather closed than open. Admittedly, this goes a bit against the will of God properly, but each manager is free to lead his franchise as he sees fit, as here, the houses are open to good god at all, except when closed. My patience was rewarded, however, since thanks to the rave party held in early December 2010 by the parish priest for St Nicolas small children, I could introduce me into the holy place and take some shots. Hooray ...

The origin of the name ( "Rotunda sv. Kříž Menšího" St. Croix minor but "Rotunda nalezení Sv.Kříže" discovery of the Holy Cross) comes from the famous discovery of the Holy Cross (sometimes called True Cross , as opposed to copies made in China) made by St. Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, a morning of 3 May 326 when she scratched his cane soil in search of black truffle Igor father in Jerusalem (see detailed history in Wikipedia ).

The Czech building was curiously called St. Croix minor, so as not to be confused with not (at least) 2 other churches of the Holy Cross, one of "Na Příkopě" (Prague 1) and that of "Žižkov" (Prague 3), but not to be confused with the Church of the Most Holy Cross, the real, the passion that Jesus discovered it, the church has disappeared from monastery at the Crusader red heart ( "Ordo crucigerorum cum Rubeo Rope" , origin PLonaise) at the boundary of the Jewish town.

Yes, because according to legend, the name "Holy Cross Minor" would come from another cross that Jesus' passion. The name comes from it once was there a long long very long, very early in the city of Prague, while the latter was still a jumble of primitive wooden huts, inhabited by pagans living from hunting and gathering, so at that time, he was once a girl (just stupid) who wanted to take the Christian faith, then regarded as heretical by local polytheists. Both parents and neighbors tried in vain to dissuade him (the girl), that Jesus, Mary, Joseph, was far from "Perun, Dažbog, and Mokos Svarog" worshiped by their ancestors, and despite puberty, hashish and Facebook on TV, she had to stop his shit and comes back on the right path of paganism.

But nothing worked, the stubborn wanted baptism on the head like a donkey kick ass. So once converted, the parents of the little fool fissa fabricated improvised a cross, and at night a dark moonless night enjoying the opacity of all black darkness, they nailed above the simpleton, and threw everything in the pond that was there in these times, but not anymore. The next day the miracle happened. The cross hung up on the pond water, the Maccabees death prow, as if a mysterious force argued that funeral table out of the waves. Then the rustic emptied the pond, buried the crucified in a Catholic rite that they had previously googled for how to do, and all remblayèrent rubble so that the machine does morbid back more to the surface the full moon when Wolves howl their despair in the Prague zoo. Later, it was on this spot that we built our Rotunda St. Croix minor. And later still, in the seventeenth century, during the restoration of the rotunda, archaeologists (though, in the seventeenth century archaeologists had not been invented yet) discovered in their excavations a real wooden cross, any rotten under the foundations of the building (see "Jan Florián Hammerschmidt gloriae Pragenae Prodromus (1723): Die 12. Maji, in hac terra sub Ecclesiola Inventum is magnus Crucifixus." ).

There is another hypothesis concerning the name. You remember in my releases on St Longinus, I told you about (and even designed ) of how our rotunda was the center of gravity of the 3 cathédraléglises (St. Vitus, St. Peter and Paul "Vysehrad" and St Peter "Na Poříčí). Ben now draw a straight Guy St - St Longinus, then another right on St Clement - St Philip and Jacques. You get a cross (minor) whose branches measured 2400 m each, and whose center is represented by the rotunda of the Holy Cross (minor). Huge right? Some historians speculate that with all these geometric figures, the rotunda of the Holy Cross Minor was the center of the urbanization of the old town from the XII century, until death of good King Charles IV (or about 200 years).

All the plans that were born, took into account a certain way of zazimuts, known as No points, the solstices, the locations of existing churches as to build, etc ... and that all religio-mystical-schema-urban reliefo had its focal point in our rotunda of the Holy Cross minor. Skeptics argue about them, with the number of churches in Prague, you can create any shape, including Bart Simpson with the rotunda as navel in the middle. Ah yes, parenthesis. St Clement's Church is one of "Na Poříčí" , Street "Klimentská" near the first monastery of the Dominicans (circa 1226), because I know of at least 3, St Clement church in Prague. As for St Philip and Jacques on "Arbesovo náměstí" , it dated from the second half of the twelfth century but was demolished between 1891-1892 to make way for a purlin correct after all, where I go sometimes given its proximity to home with me (you can eat fairly well).

It is undeniable that our rotunda is one of the oldest religious buildings in Prague and one of the oldest buildings still standing short.

Son origine incertaine remonterait parfois au XI ème siècle, d'après la découverte lors des fouilles, d'un denier du prince "Jaromír" de 1012. Son origine remonterait plus probablement au début du XII ème, puisque les historiens subodorent que la rotonde aurait été construite après l'effroyable inondation de 1118 comme église seigneuriale affiliée à un domaine, seigneurial (cf. "Cosmas Pragensis, Chronica Bohemorum: Anno dominice incarnationis MCXVIII. Mense Septembri tanta fuit inundatio aquarum, quantam non reor fuisse post diluvium in orbe terrarum. Nam noster iste fluvius Wlitaua repente preceps erumpens de alveo, ah quot villas, quot in hoc suburbio domus, casas et ecclesias suo impetu rapuit! Aliis namque temporibus tametsi hoc raro evenit, ut unda alluens vix tabulata pontis tangeret, hec autem inundatio altius quam X ulnis super pontem excrevit." ). On remonte aussi l'origine encore plus près de nous, parce que des fragments de carrelage datés univoquement du 3 ème quart du XII ème siècle ont été retrouvés lors des fouilles archéologiques. Mais aucune facture ne démontre qu'il s'agit du pavement d'origine, donc la rotonde peut facilement être plus ancienne. Mais pas forcément non plus. Quoi qu'il en soit, aucune année ni aucun nom ne permettent d'en identifier l'origine avec certitude (cf. "Jan Florián Hammerschmidt gloriae Pragenae Prodromus (1723): Haec ecclesia S. Crucis aedificat in forma rotunda fundatoris nullum sui nomen nec annum fundationis declare" ).

The Rotunda is located on the ancient trade route which led (among others) to Prague Castle to Castle "Vysehrad" , just behind the bridge (Judith and Charles respectively) that crossed the river "Vltava" , 200 m behind the church " sv. Zábradlí Jana Na" the same time and on that same street, demolished (the church) in 1896. According to archaeologists still, the rotunda was close to an international market, by the nuclei of dates and yak hair found buried in the basement.

The first written mention of the minor Holy Cross dates back to 1365 ( "ecclesia sancti Crucis minoris in Maiori civitatem" ), the building then being a parish church. I found a mention even more distant in the archives of the monastery "Zbraslav" , when the council upheld the old city in 1380 an edict of 1343 concerning the rental of the monks in front of our building rotunda : "quod has relig. d. abbate and conv. my. Aule Economy matura deliberacione prebabita multi eorum domum cum area in Maiori Civitate Prag. ex opposito ecclesie s. Crucis minoris SITAM penes balneum ".

No, just kidding, the original text (from 1343) was possibly written differently, for example, without reference to the Holy Cross minor. Then something more interesting. In 1625, the rotunda passes under the stewardship of Dominicans near St Gilles ( "klášter dominikánů u sv. Jiljí" ) Bracket fresh .... In mid-January 2011, I was excited to " the exposure " organized by the monks (the Dominicans near St Gilles) entitled "Hic Sunt (Dominican) Canes' . First surprise, Saturday can not be photographed. But Sunday, after changing young pubescent ticket seller, you can (shoot). Oh yeah? Second surprise, nothing to see. But then when I say nothing is really nothing. Quite simply, I had my camera with me, I had permission to photograph, and yet I have only meager shots, just barely enough to say I was there. That's all the blabber about St. Dominic, the Dominicans, the monastery and its history, archaeological excavations ... but in terms of exhibition, historical object, nothing. A large sidereal space. And yet, there is at least the Church of St. Gille, fabulous baroque paintings. Or library, baroqu'aussi. Nope, closed, and out of the exhibition program (duh).

So beware, I'm not saying that the history of the Dominicans in Prague, the history of the Monastery of St. Gilles, that's not interesting. If, of course. There's just that everyone can read it from home, warm, beer in hand, and there is no need to mount an exhibition for this. Well, in short, so if you miss, z'êtes not have to stop there, snag is nihil ". Parenthesis Dominican on humor. "Dominican" course is based on (holy) "Dominique" , but also the Latin word game "domini canes," literally dogs of the lord ( of "dominus" and "canis" ). In fact, the mutt plays a role in the "Dominican culture" (cf. vision of St. Dominic's mom). It symbolizes the vocation of the order, which is "barking the holy word, and protect the flock of sheep deficient." And it gave the order to your heart's content during its existence, to bark and bite (see the involvement of Dominicans in the crusades against the Cathars, the liquidation of the Templars, witches, the Inquisition, etc. ...).

As "Hic sunt leones" (here are lions), it is the endorsement on ancient maps to denote "Terra Incognita" . So "Hic Sunt (Dominican) Canes' , well funny pun. Super Dominican humor right? Great for an order that spread over several centuries of hectoliters of innocent blood on behalf of the Catholic religion.

So therefore in 1625, the rotunda came under the stewardship of Dominicans near St Giles. Well, we do not know much about this période, sinon qu'il y eut quelques restaurations comme indiqué sur une plaque en marbre retirée au XIX siècle, mais dont Jean Florian (à nouveau) nous fit une description complète: "Jan Florián Hammerschmidt, Prodromus gloriae Pragenae (1723): Super porta hujus Ecclesiolae sequens Bohemica extrinseca continetur inscriptio renovationis: Anno 1673. Haec ecclesia renovata est in honorem gloriam DEI, expensis Domini Joannis Gedliczka, vulgo: Moravi, vel Morawecz illius Uxoris. Circa Ecclesiam muros renovavis, tegi fecit. Intus dealbari, in propylaeo tectum, ossarium contegi curavit. Anno 1674. extrinsecus Ecclesiam incrustari, dealbari, in choro tectum apponi, ad Coemeterium novam portam, intus gradus, pergulam campanas ad novum fieri pavimentum sterni curavit ".

Basically, it says that in 1673, some " Jan Jedlička " (called" the Moravian ") made at its expense repair the walls, roof and the church, laundering the inside and restore the ossuary. In 1674, he plastered and launder the church (outside?), cover the choir (a roof), to ask new gate to the cemetery. .. finally he mentioned all that stuff that goes well, in order to point the finger at St Peter viendu time.

In 1784, Josef II desecrates the rotunda (like thousands of other religieuseries elsewhere) in the framework its major reforms. It came under private ownership in 1789, turned into warehouse, Carbonari (coal store sales) and started a nasty decline that led to the building's ruins. In 1860, the rotunda was in such a (dirty) state that the municipality was planning to shave it altogether, to build on its location relative a building. But in 1861 came Zorro, under the guise of what became in 1863 " umělecké Beseda" , an association of artists and intellectuals gathered under the motto "Freedom in the Arts" whose purpose was ( and still is) the promotion of talents, and incidentally saving roundhouses at risk.

Thus, under the leadership of "Ferdinand Břetislav Mikovec" then " Josef Manes " , the council acquired the rotunda (then a private good), while the architect (Vojtěch) Ignac Ullmann " (" Lichtenštejnský palác ", " Palác Lažanských "-Slavia cafe, the medicine is to gogues spagnoli ...) offered to restore it for free. At work, in 1864, was discovered in the chapel bracteates 140 (old coins shaped button), a headstone and Maccabees. Historically it is not very interesting, but I will say, however, that my publishing is complete :-) Then there were suggestions for repairs, especially the interior, and " Josef Manes " realized even a watercolor of his design (1865), on the subject of legends surrounding the patron saints of Bohemia. Unfortunately, his mental condition began to deteriorate seriously (probably syphilis or tuberculosis of the brain). However, he undertook a study trip to Rome where he was hastily brought back (by his sis) more louftingue-messed up before his departure, and became virtually unusable (it was crusty on the stairs of the Trevi Fountain, to the point he lost consciousness).

He died in 1871 of acinésie (according to the medical examiner), and also its active cooperation to safeguard our rotunda, he bequeathed the wrought iron gate as concrete evidence of his diligent involvement. This fence neoromantic of 1865 on the grounds of rosehip, which separates the plot rotondesque of the highway, is still visible today (see my pictures). And let's not forget to mention the other artists who contributed to the decoration, as "Soběslav Pinkas" , "Petr Maixner" , "Jan Popelík" or "Bedřich Wachsmann" , not to mention the most famous. In 1876, the rotunda was made perfectly restored to the municipal council. But due to lack of use, ventilation, and care, most of the artifacts made of wood, metal or painting from this period ended in the trash. Note that during this restoration, the Baroque elements were removed to get to the Rotunda's original novel aspect. Another minor restoration intervened in 1927, and the last general restoration of 1975 and 1980 gave the building the appearance in which you can see today.

And just how well it looks like the building today?

It consists of a nave round with a diameter of 6 m, and an apse at the eastern semicircle of the horseshoe. The nave is headed by a dome, surmounted by a lantern (lantern?). The apse is pierced by three windows dating from the 1860-65 restoration. From outside, in fact, nothing exceptional. Indoor, in fact not much either, except the remains of frescoes from the fourteenth century, dating probably from the reign of Charles IV (the good king) and one representative (North) Adoration of the Magi, the Virgin Mary right, Jesus on her lap. One can still see a bit of Joseph, and we assume a flock of saints above (but can not see them anymore). Another fresco (South) represents the crowning of the Virgin, 2 bodyguards angels on the sides, and a building full of Italian style scene in the background. These paintings were discovered during repair of 1860-65, and restored by a master of the genre, "František Sequens" .

So now a few anecdotes. During the period backup of the rotunda, in 1862, "Ferdinand Břetislav Mikovec" suddenly remembered that the museum of the Kingdom of Bohemia had acquired 20 years earlier " famous model of Prague " (which I have often spoken) built by "Antonín Langweil ".

So we explained the model as mayor of the old city, and the recipe served in the exhibit (small) part to pay for restoration of the building. I've put a picture of the digitized version of the model, but unfortunately we can not walk around at will in the model (movement imposed by the camera), I no better view than you see here. Then I managed to find you some sketches / paintings of the period ( "Manes, Bubák, Lorenz ), showing the rotunda (period). These are pictures of photocopies of documents digitized by the Prague Municipal Library, so the quality is not top-sissy. However you can still get a good idea of what the building looked like at the time. Today, the Rotunda serves as a parish church to "Old Catholic community " Prague. So beware, "Old Catholic" (ie the Church of Utrecht) has nothing to do with its age, but with the original attachment to the dogma of the Catholic Church, in contrast with the 1st Vatican Council (1870) and especially in opposition to the principle of papal infallibility (another [ among many] schismatic church on the soil of Bohemia :-)

And do not forget the legends that go well. In time, there were street "Konviktská" , just behind the Rotunda, a purlin unhealthy named after the nickname of its owner, U Jezurů ", and that ironically Prague called U Dobrých Sester " (sisters in charity) of smokehouses by night owls who roamed this clip ass underworld. And history tells that the place was haunted by a spirit hairy, with long legs and long arms, all hairy and beard, all hairy too. In the words of the premises, the beast came punish depraved perverts who had strayed from God's word. Many say they have seen the spirit hairy, and some even have been bitten on the nose, poor thing up (finally shameless anyway) that the beast would have tried to strangle her. By dint of scaring customers, they ended up not attending the purlin, Bear in mind and would have moved his virtuous apostolate in other localities of the city. Personally, I've never met, probably because I am morally respectable :-) For cons, I have already visited the purlin bearing his name, " U Chlupatýho ducha" (in mind hairy), and do not necessarily deserve a look, even if you're in the neighborhood. The waitresses are cute, nice, but beer is disgusting catastrophically.

A Fool Expo put the keg in the kitchen, and the pipette to the bar, away from a ten meters. Now everyone knows that the basic rules of drawing beer is to have the pipes as short as possible so that the beer stays not there. Beer "Bear in mind" is undrinkable, so I do not recommend the place.

Otherwise it is a belief that it would exist under the rotunda and on the street "Konviktská" , deep cellars where to find the graves, which would sleep in the living dead that would protect a fabulous treasure recorded there for next King of Bohemia. This legend is supported by the discovery of the mite "Jaromír" (1012). Now given the accumulated inflation since a millennium and the likelihood of having a king in the future, even though he came up one day to the surface, the value of paltry treasure ... Always

street "Konviktská" in a private garden, its owner (the garden) wanted to build a wall to separate its parcel of that of the rotunda.

But the branch of a tree encumbered erection (wall), so he (owner) took a saw and began cutting the branch unwelcome. Suddenly, the cut began to bleed real blood, all red and impossible to wash machine without add chocolate, red wine and oil drain ... Then our guys got scared and sent for a masonry company to finish the job. He however asked the workers to avoid the tree, and erect an arch in the wall around the branch, to leave it as is. This curiosity for passers was still visible before the restoration of the rotunda of the nineteenth century, and the replacement of that wall by the fence on the grounds of rosehip neoromantic designed by " Josef Manes " . At last, the tree would have died a natural death, and was no longer there either. So when

you will visit Prague, the heart, do not forget to see the rotunda. It lies just 250 m from the National Theatre, in small streets that smell good authentic history of the city, and you will not be pestered by tourists rarely venture into this corner.

little chance that the rotunda is open, however you can still at least enjoy the outdoors. And once the tour ended, I invite you to really get to the tavern said " Near the rotunda " . Things have changed a bit since I published (September 2006), but the essence is still there intact and authentic. Bulk of happiness my good lady. Holy Cross is there: 50 ° 4'58 .132 "N, 14 ° 24'53 .021" E