Kosciól sw. Augustyna - Wroclaw, Poland - Roman Catholic Churches on Waymarking.com

St. Augustyna - a post-evangelical Catholic church at ul. Sudecka in Wroclaw. Its patron is Augustine of Hippo; until 1945 this call was carried by another church in Wroclaw's Borek, at Kleinburgstraße (Januszowicka Street), which was razed to the ground during the Red Army's attack on Festung Breslau at the end of World War II.

Church at ul. Sudecka, designed by architects Alfred Böttcher and Richard Gaze and built in 1909, it presents a composition of elements of various architectural styles typical of the decline of historicism in architecture. The structure of the building was designed on a Greek cross plan: at the intersection of the main nave and transept, there is a 78-meter tower. It has three storeys: the first and the second are topped with four corner towers, the third storey is covered with a tall pyramidal cupola made of copper sheet, the reduced copies of which crown all eight corner turrets. The outer walls of the church are faced with richly carved cut stone.

The pulpit was designed by Theodor von Gosen, a professor of sculpture at the National Academy of Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw.

For the first nearly 40 years of its existence, the church had St. John and belonged to an Evangelical parish (Silesian Evangelical Union Church). Warfare in 1945 resulted in damage estimated at 45%; the size of the damage to the building was considered fit for reconstruction in Wroclaw at that time. In 1948, Catholics bought it from Evangelicals. The reconstruction lasted until the fall of 1949. On September 4 of that year, the priest prelate Karol Milik could consecrate under the new patronage. Ten years later, the reconstruction of the much more damaged (approx. 80%) presbytery at this church was completed.

In the church there is a painting of Our Lady of Hodowicka, crowned in 1932, brought in the 19th century from Moravia to the Hodowica parish near Lviv to the local unique 18th-century Rococo All Saints Church (now in ruins) designed by Bernard Meretyn. After World War II, rescued by Poles from the Kresowa conflagration, happily found himself in the church of St. Augustine.

The church is also equipped with a 48-voice electro-pneumatic organ, built by the Wroclaw organ builder Józef Cynar.

Type of Church: Church Status of Building: Actively in use for worship Dominant Architectural Style: Historicism Archdiocese: Archdiocese of Wrocław Diocese: Diocese of Wrocław Address/Location: Sudecka 90 Wrocław, Dolnyśląsk Poland 53-129 Date of organization: Not listed Date of building construction: Not listed Associated Shrines, Art, etc.: Not listed Relvant Web Site: Not listed

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