Completion of the St. Vitus Cathedral

  Authors

Agrofilm

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12801/3900203-02

 Date issued

1927

 Type

clip, video

 Language(s)

Nolinguistic content

 Description

The segment shows the completion of the Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert (katedrála sv. Víta, Václava a Vojtěcha) at Prague Castle. The cathedral's completion, which had been put off for several centuries, was decided on in 1844 with the foundation of the "Union for Completion of the Cathedral of St. Vitus". The completion was entrusted to architect Josef Mocker, who authored the cathedral's current neo-Gothic style. Shots of the construction site in the third courtyard and the cathedral's exterior. Kamil Hilbert, who became the main architect of the restoration after Mocker's death, the restorer František Xaver Margold, the builder Karel Lustig, and the master stonemason Vítvar are present at the construction site. The opening ceremony and consecration of the cathedral took place on 28 September 1929 on the occasion of the St. Wenceslas Millennium celebrations.

 Publisher

Národní filmový archiv

 Subject(s)

katedrála rozestavěná staveniště hrad katedrála exteriér katedrála interiér architektura gotická dostavba katedrály katedrála dostavba nádvoří hradní Pražský stavební ruch Places::Praha::Hradčany::Pražský hrad::třetí hradní nádvoří Places::Praha::Hradčany::Pražský hrad::katedrála sv. Víta::rozestavěná People::Hilbert Kamil (1869-1933) People::Margold František Xaver (1887-1967) People::Lustig Karel (neuvedeno-) People::Vítvar (neuvedeno-)

 Collection(s)

Prague Urban Development in the First Half of the 20th Century

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