Zagreb Cathedral Croatia
by Jasna Dragun
Title
Zagreb Cathedral Croatia
Artist
Jasna Dragun
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
Zagreb Cathedral is the largest Croatian religious building and one of the most valuable monuments of Croatian cultural heritage. The first and most important Gothic building in Croatia. The most monumental is the Gothic sacral building southeast of the Alps.
Shortly after the founding of the diocese in Zagreb (around 1094), the construction of a table church in the transitional Romanesque-Gothic style began. The construction took a long time and it was not until 1217 that it was completed and dedicated. Soon it was badly damaged by the invasions of the Tatars (1242), but already Bishop Timothy (1263-1287) began to thoroughly renovate it in the Gothic style. Restoration continued in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 16th century the cathedral was fortified with walls and towers, and in the 17th century it received its massive Renaissance tower.
The fires and the invasion of the enemy repeatedly damaged her, but the hardest hit struck her in the 1880 earthquake. After the earthquake, a thorough renovation of the cathedral in the Neo-Gothic style (1880-1906) was carried out, according to the designs of the builder F. Schmidt and under the direction of Hermann BollΓ©. At that time, Zagreb's first-century church got its present form with two slender towers, high roofs, new pillars in the sanctuary and altars that replaced those 18th-century baroque ones.
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October 4th, 2022
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