Kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie / Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Hradec Králové - East Bohemia)
N 50° 12.551 E 015° 50.043
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The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Kostel Nanebevzetí Marie), built by the Jesuits between 1654-1666, is the major Baroque monument of the regional capital Hradec Králové...
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Location: Královéhradecký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 03/14/2010
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The monumental single-nave Baroque Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Kostel Nanebevzetí Marie) was built by the Jesuit order between 1654-1666 according to the project of the renown Italian Baroque architect Carlo Lurago. In 1762, church was extensively damaged by fire.
The only parts of the original decoration that remained preserved are the frescos in St. Ignatius’s Chapel and the painting Glorification of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Petr Brandl (around 1730). The altar painting of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Kristián Noldinger and other decoration was realised only after 1765. In the church, there is also a valuable organ, the oldest one in Hradec Králové. It is a two-manual Baroque instrument from 1765, constructed by Josef Streussel (1732 - 1776), an organ maker from Kralice. The church towers were built only in 1857. The interiors were rebuilt several times, while the largest reconstruction took place at the beginning of the 20th century and in 1941-1945.