Publication details
KAPLE ZVANÁ CYRILKA NA VELEHRADĚ – NOVÉ POZNATKY K JEJÍ STAVEBNÍ HISTORII
| Title in English | Chapel Called Cyrilka in Velehrad – New Facts About its Building History |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Slovácko : společenskovědní sborník pro moravsko-slovenské pomezí |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://www.academia.edu/4713628/KAPLE_ZVANA_CYRILKA_NA_VELEHRADE_-_NOVE_POZNATKY_K_JEJI_STAVEBNI_HISTORII_Chapel_Called_Cyrilka_in_Velehrad_-_New_Facts_About_its_Building_History |
| Keywords | Velehrad, cistercian monastery, The chapel, Cyrilka (originally consecrated to Holy Body and Blood) |
| Description | The chapel called Cyrilka (originally consecrated to Holy Body and Blood), since 1863 Epiphany, is an inconspicuous building placed near the monumental Velehrad basilica. Various researchers place the beginning of its construction somewhere into the period before or after the half of the 13th century. Its present shape owes mostly to its gothic rebuilding in the 19th century. The first archaeological research of the building was carried out in 1907 and it was connected with the replacement of its paving and it was the first time when the basements of the older building constructions going diagonally under the church were discovered. Within the frame of reconstruction in 1937 the floor in the presbytery was replaced and ta the same time the intact layers were lowered to the lower part of the foundations. This research managed to uncover the direction of the wall oriented from south-east to north-west leading one meter deep under the presbytery. In 2012 some building and terrain works were carried out in the interior as well as the exterior of Cyrilka as a part of the project called “Velehrad – Centre of the Cultural Dialogue of Western and Eastern Europe” the aim of which was to rehabilitate the Cistercian monastery. On the basis of the archaeological research it was proved that the building of the present day temple was preceded by the building of a rather slight shallow wall. At this point, the line of the preserved enclosure wall running both on western and eastern sides of the temple which copies the line of the torso found under the presbytery, has to be taken into consideration |
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