Cysterskie stalle w Koronowie. Ich budowa i funkcje użytkowe

Janusz Krawczyk

doi:10.52204/np.2001.96.299-319

Vol. 96 (2001): Our Past

Articles

Cistercian stalls in Koronowo. Their structure and functions

Janusz Krawczyk

pdf (Język polski)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52204/np.2001.96.299-319 [Google Scholar]
Published: 2001-12-30

Abstract

The monastic stalls discussed in this article are part of the original Baroque furnishings of the post-Cistercian church at Koronowo. Their dating was verified recently by the discovery of a 1796 signature of Grzegorz Baranowski on the picture of St Benedict. The stalls are covered with heavy overlays executed in the 18th century. The aim of that alteration was, probably, to adjust the stalls to the overall aesthetic formula of the newly reconstructed church interior. The arrangement of monastic choir of which the stalls are a part was radically altered soon after the Second World War. Our investigations show that the two sections of two-tier fifteen seat stalls now in the presbytery used to occupy the first and second bay of the nave (next to the transept). At the far (western) end the stalls abutted on pillars edged with wood-carvings representing St Benedict and St Bernard. The arrangement at the other (altar) end has not changed. The twin-seat (prioral and abbatial) stalls branched sideways in the transept. The original layout of the Koronowo choir reconstructed in the article evinces numerous analogies with corresponding constructions in Cistercian abbeys in Silesia such as Lubiąż and Henrykowo. The stalls of the Koronowo church owe their originality not only to the elaborate woodwork decorations but also to the way in which the seats of two-tier stalls were mounted on a sturdy wooden framework. Moreover, the construction of the high backs enabled the 18th century renovators to adapt them for a typically Baroque chiaroscuro.

References

Busch R., Deutsches Chorgestuhl in Sechs Jahrhunderts, Hildesheim-Leipzig 1926. [Google Scholar]
Krawczyk ., Zasady projektowania i budowy stalli w traktacie Andre-Jacques a Roubo z 1770 r., w: Conservatio est aeterna creatio, red. J. Krawczyk, Toruń 1999. [Google Scholar]
Krawczyk J., Ein manieristische Chorgestiihl, Seweryn Dytlof Chmielewski, 1613. Sankt Johannes der Taufer — Kirche in Lubawa. Historisch-Konservatorische Dokumentation, Toruń 1998. [Google Scholar]
Lurker M., Słownik obrazów i symboli biblijnych, Poznań 1989. [Google Scholar]
Okoń E. , Oliński P., Byszewo — Koronowo, w: Monasticon Cisterciense Poloniae, t. 2 s. 42-63; E. O k o ń, Zabudowa klasztoru cysterskiego w Koronowie w XVIII stuleciu, w: Conservatio est aeterna creatio, red. J. Krawczyk, Toruń 1999. [Google Scholar]

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Keywords

Cistercians
Cistercian monastery in Koronowo
sacral architecture
stalls

How to Cite

Krawczyk, J. (2001). Cistercian stalls in Koronowo. Their structure and functions. Our Past, 96, 299–319. https://doi.org/10.52204/np.2001.96.299-319

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

[1] Busch R., Deutsches Chorgestuhl in Sechs Jahrhunderts, Hildesheim-Leipzig 1926. [Google Scholar]

[2] Krawczyk ., Zasady projektowania i budowy stalli w traktacie Andre-Jacques a Roubo z 1770 r., w: Conservatio est aeterna creatio, red. J. Krawczyk, Toruń 1999. [Google Scholar]

[3] Krawczyk J., Ein manieristische Chorgestiihl, Seweryn Dytlof Chmielewski, 1613. Sankt Johannes der Taufer — Kirche in Lubawa. Historisch-Konservatorische Dokumentation, Toruń 1998. [Google Scholar]

[4] Lurker M., Słownik obrazów i symboli biblijnych, Poznań 1989. [Google Scholar]

[5] Okoń E. , Oliński P., Byszewo — Koronowo, w: Monasticon Cisterciense Poloniae, t. 2 s. 42-63; E. O k o ń, Zabudowa klasztoru cysterskiego w Koronowie w XVIII stuleciu, w: Conservatio est aeterna creatio, red. J. Krawczyk, Toruń 1999. [Google Scholar]