Kosciól sw. Marii Magdaleny / Church of St. Mary Magdalene - Cieszyn (Poland)
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Monumental Gothic-Baroque Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Kosciól sw. Marii Magdaleny}, the oldest functional church in the city (founded ca 1263), is parish church of the St. Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic parish in Cieszyn.
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Location: Śląskie, Poland
Date Posted: 04/09/2015
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Monumental Gothic-Baroque Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Kosciól sw. Marii Magdaleny}, the oldest functional church in the city (founded ca 1263), is parish church of the St. Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic parish in Cieszyn.

St. Mary Magdalene’s was founded in half of the 13th century as the convent church of the Dominican monastery. Its function was also to be the final resting place of the Cieszyn ruling ducal family of Piasts. A tomb effigy, dating back to the turn of the 14th century probably that of Prince Premislaus I Noszak, probably work of the Peter Parler (Prague) workshop, has been preserved. During the Reformation, in the years 1544-1611, it was taken over by the Protestants, but in 1611, it was returned to the Catholic church. From that time on, it was again in the hands of the Dominicans, who, however, left the city in 1789. Church was extensively rebuilt after the 1789 fire in Baroque style, it has since then functioned as the parish church. Some Gothic architectural features have been preserved. The Baroque altarpiece was designed by Andreas Kaspar Schweigel of Brno (1795).


Kosciól sw. Marii Magdaleny w Cieszynie – najstarszy istniejacy w Cieszynie kosciól katolicki, tzw. kosciól farny. Glówny kosciól parafii sw. Marii Magdaleny w Cieszynie.

Swiatynia wybudowana zostala w XIII wieku (ok. 1263 roku) jako budowla romanska z fundacji zony ksiecia opolsko-raciborskiego Wladyslawa Opolskiego – Eufemii. Poczatkowo byla swiatynia klasztorna zakonu dominikanów i nosila wezwanie Najswietszej Maryi Panny. W dobie gotyku kosciólek stal sie transeptem rozbudowanej swiatyni. Dlugie prezbiterium musialo pomiescic dominikanów, a nieco krótsza nawa – wiernych.

Podczas reformacji (w latach 1544-1611) przejety zostal przez ewangelików. Od 1611 do 1789 r. ponownie przeszedl w rece zakonu. W 1784 r. stal sie kosciolem parafialnym parafii obejmujacej wschodnia czesc miasta i wsie podcieszynskie, a po jego odbudowie, po pozarze miasta w 1789 roku, zostal nowym kosciolem farnym p.w. sw. Marii Magdaleny (noszaca to wezwanie dotychczasowa fara na obecnym placu Teatralnym splonela w tym samym wielkim pozarze). Klasztor dominikanów zostal wówczas zlikwidowany a sami zakonnicy opuscili na zawsze Cieszyn. Odbudowa dodala gotyckiemu korpusowi póznobarokowo-klasycystyczna fasade zwienczona wieza, który to styl swiatyni zachowal sie do dzis. Byl to projekt glównego architekta kierujacego odbudowa Cieszyna po pozarze – Karla Jacobiego von Eckholma.

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