Lipnik nad Bečvou - Church - Church of Saint Francis of Seraphim - Exterior 01 Square
The church is situated in Bratrská Street, close to the Piarist Monastery and the mansion house. It is located in place where once the Moravian Brethren´s congregation stood; a Renaissance-style church was built by local authorities between 1590 and 1593. Petr Vok of Rosenberg with his wife Catherine of Ludanitz were the lords of Lipník that time. Peter Vok was a Catholic until his marriage with Catherine, however, he became a Moravian Brother under in fluence of his young wife.
The Moravian Brethren´s Church was built in a composite Gothic & Renaissance style. It had a rectangular ground plan with hedral presbytery bound by twin towers.The church design including peripheral walls of the presbytery with buttresses, presbytery vaulting which was adapted later and twin towers, the northern one of which is decorated with a peristyle as well as a ballustrade have preserved from the original structure. It was an exceptional work because Moravian Brethren´s Churches usually had no towers at all. The southern tower has never been completed and so it has never reaches the planned height.The designer of this signiticant building may have been the famous master Baltassare Maggi from Arogno in Italy.
After more than 100 years (between 1682 and 1687), the church, now consecrated to St. Francis Seraphic was rebuilt by the Piarists in early baroque style by the imperial architect Giovanni Pietro Tencalla – a representative of early baroque style in Central Europe. The church is known for its excellent acoustics and so regular concerts now take place there. The monumental entrance gate with semicircular arch filled with a baroque-style wrought iron grille from 1757 is a real jewel. On the top of the entrance gate, there is a sculpture representing Revelation of St. Therese to St. Joseph Calasanz who founded the Piarist Order. Francis O. Hirnle is credited with its authorship (B. Samek).
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Lipnik nad Bečvou - Church - Church of Saint Francis of Seraphim - Exterior 01 Square
The church is situated in Bratrská Street, close to the Piarist Monastery and the mansion house. It is located in place where once the Moravian Brethren´s congregation stood; a Renaissance-style church was built by local authorities between 1590 and 1593. Petr Vok of Rosenberg with his wife Catherine of Ludanitz were the lords of Lipník that time. Peter Vok was a Catholic until his marriage with Catherine, however, he became a Moravian Brother under in fluence of his young wife.
The Moravian Brethren´s Church was built in a composite Gothic & Renaissance style. It had a rectangular ground plan with hedral presbytery bound by twin towers.The church design including peripheral walls of the presbytery with buttresses, presbytery vaulting which was adapted later and twin towers, the northern one of which is decorated with a peristyle as well as a ballustrade have preserved from the original structure. It was an exceptional work because Moravian Brethren´s Churches usually had no towers at all. The southern tower has never been completed and so it has never reaches the planned height.The designer of this signiticant building may have been the famous master Baltassare Maggi from Arogno in Italy.
After more than 100 years (between 1682 and 1687), the church, now consecrated to St. Francis Seraphic was rebuilt by the Piarists in early baroque style by the imperial architect Giovanni Pietro Tencalla – a representative of early baroque style in Central Europe. The church is known for its excellent acoustics and so regular concerts now take place there. The monumental entrance gate with semicircular arch filled with a baroque-style wrought iron grille from 1757 is a real jewel. On the top of the entrance gate, there is a sculpture representing Revelation of St. Therese to St. Joseph Calasanz who founded the Piarist Order. Francis O. Hirnle is credited with its authorship (B. Samek).
info.mesto-lipnik.cz/en/vismo/dokumenty2.asp?id_org=20027...