Gurk Cathedral
Gurk Cathedral | |
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Location | Gurk, Carinthia |
Country | Austria |
Denomination | Catholic |
History | |
Founded | c. 1140 |
Founder(s) | Bishop Roman I of Gurk |
Consecrated | 1200 |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Cathedral |
Style | Romanesque |
Administration | |
Diocese | Diocese of Gurk |
Clergy | |
Bishop(s) | Josef Marketz |
Gurk Cathedral (German: Dom zu Gurk, officially Pfarr- und ehemalige Domkirche Mariae Himmelfahrt, Slovene: Bazilika v Krki) is a Romanesque pillar basilica in Gurk, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The former cathedral and current co-cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Gurk was built from 1140 to 1200, it is one of the most important Romanesque buildings in Austria.[1]
With its consecration in 1174, the grave of Saint Hemma of Gurk was relocated there from former Gurk Abbey, a Benedictine nunnery she had founded in 1043 and which was dissolved by Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg in 1070/72, in order to fund the newly established Gurk diocese and the construction of the cathedral. The cathedral chapter established in 1123 moved to Klagenfurt in 1787.
Construction[]
The elongated building has a westwork with two towers, a gallery, a crypt, and three apses. The crypt, with its 100 columns, is the oldest part of the cathedral. In the middle of the rural Gurktal, the imposing 60 m (200 ft) tall twin steeple of the cathedral can be seen from a very great distance.
Gallery[]
Interior
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External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dom zu Gurk. |
- Gurk Abbey website (in German)
Coordinates: 46°52′30″N 14°17′37″E / 46.87500°N 14.29361°E
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