St. Kazimierz Church

The St. Casimir's Church in Warsaw (Polish Kościół Sw. Kazimierz, also Kościół Sakramentek ) is a Baroque church in the Polish capital. It is located at New Town Market (Polish: Rynek Nowego Miasta ) in Warsaw's Old Town ( Polish: Nowe Miasto), a district that starts at the ramparts of the old town and spreads along the Vistula embankment.

The church was built due to a foundation of Queen Marie Louise de la Grange d' Casimire Arquien, wife of King John III. Sobieski as a monastery church invited by her to Poland Benedictines of the Blessed Sacrament.

The building is (next to the Church of St. Anthony in the district Czerniaków ) the only Warsaw baroque church with the central plan of a Greek cross. It was built in the Elder designed by the Dutch architect Tylman van Gameren under the supervision of the royal court architect Agostino Locci. Construction began in 1688 and lasted until 1692, the equipment lasted for nearly a century.

Located adjacent to the church residence of Adam Kotowski, also the work of Tylman van Gameren, the Queen had to rebuild the monastery.

1740 was a new monastery building designed by the Italian architect Antonio Solari, donated by the family of Radziwill built.

The church was built in the shape of an octagonal room with four short arms, which were the arms of the Greek cross. The octagonal tambour also wore an octagonal cupola, topped with a lantern with royal crown and cross on top. The facades were divided by Tuscan pilasters holding at the ends of the cross arms with the entablature tympanum. The windows were placed high in order to create space underneath for altars.

The church survived the siege of Warsaw in 1939 intact. During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 gathered in the burned, but have not yet collapsed church residents in the hope that the church was spared during the air raids. On August 31, by 15 clock in the attack of the Luftwaffe bombs hit the dome. The debris buried about 1,000 civilians, including wounded and nuns.

The damage included 80 percent of the building stock. With the help of the obtained designs van Gamerens and surveying drawings of architecture students of the 1925-1933 reconstruction was begun. The draft prepared in 1945 by architect Maria Zachwatowicz. The reconstruction took place in the years 1948 until 1952.

Of the original of the sanctuary only the tomb of Marie Caroline de bouillon is obtained.

Church ruins in 1945

After the reconstruction

Interior

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The church was incorporated on July 1, 1965 and 6 March 2007, A- 744 in the list of monuments of the Masovian Voivodeship