Pamplona Cathedral
The Santa Maria la Real de Pamplona Cathedral is the spiritual center of Spain's Archdiocese of Pamplona.
History
The current gothic church had a previous Romanesque building, built 1100-1127 (the construction of the associated monastery lasted until 1137 ). From him some capitals of the portal and the monastery are still preserved, which are in the Museum of the Comunidad Foral de Navarra issued. 1280 the construction of a new monastery was begun. The construction work lasted until 1375, including ancillary buildings such as the refectory, kitchen and barbazan Chapel. 1391 plunged the nave of a Romanesque cathedral dating from the 11th century. Only the facade, the head end and the monastery escaped the disaster. As of 1392, King Charles III. of Navarre (1387-1425) built the Gothic successor building on the same site at which survived the recently built monastery. The construction work lasted until the year 1501. During the 18th century the main facade of Ventura Rodríguez was newly raised in the contemporary style of the Baroque and the revolutionary architecture.
Interior
The main nave with three naves counts only two floors with large arches and windows. The strict objectivity of unadorned surfaces correspond to the Navarre Gothic. A transept, a polygonal apse and ambulatory complete the plan. Front of the grid, which completes the chancel, is the alabaster sarcophagus of the founder Charles III. and his wife Eleanor of Castile, who was, in 1416, given in the year of death of the queen in order. In a chapel of the right ambulatory is a Flemish- Spanish altarpiece from the 15th century.
Bells
In the two east towers of the Cathedral hang eleven bells, all of bronze, of which la Gabriela is from 1519, the oldest. Eight bells are housed in the South Tower, which are all liturgical use. Four of them are poured into so-called Roman rib, a very upset and steep shape, the other four are clamps; they fill all sound arcades of the tower, while the small hanging in the smaller, the large in the larger sound arcades. The north tower contains three bells, including the largest ensembles, which is equal to the largest bell located in Spain's function and two bells for the Uhrschlag. The main bell of the entire ensemble is la Gabriela. She wears a three-line inscription with verses from the Holy Bible, several medallions, stylized lily blossoms, crucifixion two groups, and the Archangel Gabriel, from which the bell probably takes its name. De las Nueve was the first Läutezeichen for the canons to Lauds at 9 clock. With the Cimbalilla a sign for the ringing bells with the other was given by the led from a rope to the office of bell-ringer who could look at the high altar through a window to what is happening. De plata de Párvulos were rung together at the death of a child. With the bell oraciones the prayer times at work, on Sundays and feast days were smaller struck. Santa Bárbara was used as a bell weather. La María in the North Tower is rung not about hitting, but is only gebeiert, where the 300 -pound clapper swung from one to the other side of the wall. This occurs at the highest feast days. The two Uhrglocken hot and De horas de cuartos.
Digger
In the cathedral of the kings of Navarre were buried in the family:
- García IV († 1150 )
- Sancho VI. († 1194), his wife Sancha, († 1175 ) and the son Remigio († 1229 )
- Theobald I ( † 1253 )
- Henry I († 1274)
- Philip III. († 1343 )
- Charles II († 1387 )
- Charles III. († 1425), his wife Eleanor of Castile († 1415), as well as the children Carlos, Luis, Maria, Isabel and Margarita.
- Lancelot of Navarre, Patriarch of Alexandria
- Anne of Cleves, Princess of Viana ( † 1448 ).
- Gaston de Foix, Prince of Viana ( † 1470 )