Västerås Cathedral
The Västerås Cathedral is the Cathedral Västerås in Sweden.
The cathedral was consecrated in the Baptist in the Middle Ages, the Virgin Mary and John. The church is also known as Domkyrkan Vårfru and Sancta Maria och Sankt Johannes domkyrka.
History
The church was built in the mid 12th century or earlier. The oldest church was a small church made of natural stone. In the 13th century it was also learned that building with brick. At the point where stood the stone church, a large new church was built. This was ordained to the Baptist on August 16, 1271 Virgin Mary and John. The west pediment of the tower was provided with arched Freisen. On the pillars of the aisles is visible, that the vaults were lower. About the rood screen hangs a triumphal cross. During the following century the church received a choir and a nave and two aisles statements.
In the 14th and 15th century the old church was the chapel. This was later incorporated into the Church and is now the outer five-aisled nave of the church. The church building was expanded to the East in the 15th century. In the West there was a mighty tower, and north and south two smaller chapels. Once in the southwest corner, a chapel was added in 1517, the church received its present size.
The tower had a medieval tip and a Renaissance dome, which was destroyed by fire. The present baroque tower of 1693 was designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. The tower measures 102.5 m with a tap.
In the 16th and 17th centuries many furnishings were added as the pulpit, grave times, coat of arms panel and more.
In the mid-1850s, the cathedral was restored in neo-Gothic style, besides, numerous items from the Renaissance and Baroque periods were removed. The whole church was provided from 1896 to 1898 with neo-Gothic paintings; Today there are such only through the great organ loft. At the last restoration from 1958 to 1961, efforts have to consider the different periods of 700 years of architectural history of the church.
In the Church of Gustav Vasa eldest son Erik XIV was buried. In 1623 Bishop John Rudbeckius founded in a building just a few hundred meters from the Cathedral Sweden's first high school.
Equipment
The original baptismal font made of bronze was cast in 1391 in Lübeck and donated by Bishop Bene Korp, it is inexplicably but has always been in the Church of St. Nikolai von Burg on Fehmarn. In Västerås is in use since 1955, a copy of ( cast ). The baptismal font in the Nordic Renaissance style with a three -meter-high font, encircled by a marsh vine, is a work of Lübeck in 1622. It is one of the most remarkable Renaissance art in Sweden. There the Church of the widow of Simon Depken was donated.
Two wing altars, also of Lübeck, date from the 15th century. The altar in the sacristy shows only two biblical images, the rest are pictures of saints. The winged altar in the Apostle Chapel in the north aisle was made in the early 15th century in the workshop of Jan Bormann (Brussels). The altar of the baptistery or Lady Chapel in the south aisle is a work from Antwerp of 1510; the paintings are similar to those of Dieric Bouts in Louvain. The altar at the high altar is from 1516 and was founded by Sten Sture the Younger and his wife Kristina Nilsdotter Gyllenstierna. The altar from Antwerp is attributed to Jan Gillisz Wrage and Jan Genoots, the paintings of Jan van Dornicke.
The Veronicatavlan of sandstone, donated by Bishop Otto Svinhufvud were manufactured in 1514 in Västerås and then painted and gilded. The silver altar crucifix dates from the early 14th century and was made in Paris. The pulpit of 1961 has been made from ceramic by Per -Erik Willo.
A reliquary of rock crystal and gilt bronze dates from the 14th century. A silk miter with embroidery in red and blue from the monastery of Vadstena was made in the 15th century for Bishop John Achatius. The bishop's staff from 1585 was for the accomplished in the cathedral marriage of King John III. made with Gunilla Bielke.
A chandelier donated Bishop John Brodinus in 1681. Kingdom Drost Magnus Brahe's tomb in black and white marble with pictures of alabaster dates from the early 17th century. An epitaph in the Renaissance style of 1625 is reminiscent of Simon Depken the elders of Västerås, another epitaph from the early Baroque ( 1676 ) to George Hoffman. Other epitaphs remember Lars Pedersson and Nicolaus Dwan (1709, baroque ). At General Count De la Gardie Pontus Fredric recalls a painting by 1692nd
King Erik XIV, who in 1577 by his brother King John III. was poisoned, is buried under the choir gallery. The king's remains were transferred in 1797 in a sarcophagus made of Carrara marble, since King Gustav III. a worthy grave stone wanted.
The great organ was built in 1898 by the organ builder Åkerman & Lund (Stockholm), and most recently extensively restored in 2008. The instrument has four registers on manual and pedal organ works. In addition, the instrument has a bombards work that can be coupled to the main work and the positive features. The play and Registertrakturen are electro.
- Couplers: II / I, III / I, IV / I, III / II, IV / II, IV / III , I / P, II / P III / P IV / P , various octave couplers.