St. Donatian's Cathedral

The Sint- Donaaskathedraal in Bruges, Belgium, was built in the 10th and 13th centuries. In 1799 it was destroyed in connection with the resolution of the diocese of Bruges during the revolution. Today it is above ground completely removed.

History

In the 10th century, Count Arnulf I of Flanders ( † 964 ) had rebuilt from the ground up the old feudal castle in Bruges; the castle was enlarged, surrounded by a high stone wall and completed by a church. The church should receive the relics of St. Donatian of Reims, who had been brought to 870 by monks from Torhout to Bruges.

The church took over the octagonal ground plan of the Aachen Cathedral, which Arnulf presented itself as one of the most powerful princes in this part of Europe and reminded that in the female line descended from Charles the Great. There were a tower and a 16- square ambulatory. The church closed the Castle Square on its northern side.

After the church had been destroyed by a fire in 1184, it was replaced by a Romanesque building, which was rebuilt in the Gothic style at the end of the Middle Ages. In 1559 the diocese of Bruges was founded and where the church is why the cathedral.

During the French Revolution, the cathedral was sold as national property, the works of art contained in the church were distributed, the cathedral itself demolished in the years 1799-1800. In 1834 the diocese of Bruges by Pope Gregory XVI. re-established and this brought the parish church St. Salvator of the new cathedral.

Today only remember a slab of blue stone and embedded in the pavement floor plan of the Carolingian building to the church. The 1955 rediscovered foundations of the choir of the Romanesque church from the end of the 12th century are situated in the basement of the " Crowne Plaza Brugge " hotels and can be visited.

Events

  • On March 2, 1127, Count Charles I. was murdered by Flanders in Sint- Donaas.
  • On November 30, 1432 took place here the second chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece instead.

Burials

  • Margaret I of Flanders († 1194)
  • Louis I of Flanders (X 1346 )
  • Jean de Villiers de L' Isle- Adam († 1437)
  • Jan van Eyck († 1441 )
  • Juan Luis Vives († 1540)

The cathedral was also grave church of the bishops of Bruges.

Works of art

In Groeningemuseum in Bruges are from the Cathedral:

  • Jan van Eyck's " Madonna met kannunik Joris van der Paele " from the year 1436th
  • " La Vierge à l' Enfant avec sainte Catherine et sainte Barbe " the maître du Saint -Sang from the period around 1520/25
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