Kostel Všech svatých v Litoměřicích Church

The Church of All Saints stands on the corners of Long and Jesuit Street in the southeast corner of the Peace Square, right opposite the Old Town Hall. It is due to the fact that he became one of the most famous objects of Litomeric, first of all, the white color of the facade, which earned him the nickname "white church." The tower is 54 metres high with a gallery and a tower clock. In the interior, the visitor notices the painting of Christ on Mount Olivetsky from the Litomeric Master from the beginning of the 16th century; The statue of the Virgin Mary with Jesus on the south side of the building will then attract attention from the outside. The church is protected as a cultural monument.

The construction has a long and complex development. In the place of today's baroque church there was originally a very old Romanesque temple from the first half of the 12th century - the oldest preserved wall in the whole city is located here. He went through many reconstructions over time. The first written mention dates back to 1235, when the church was part of the early medieval town fortification and had an adjacent cemetery that worked there until 1790. Around 1350, the church author Konrád Waldhauser started preaching here.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the construction was changed according to the styles at the time. In 1480 the temple went through a Gothic reconstruction. A year later, in 1501, he initiated the builder's rebuilding of the tower, which lasted throughout the 16th century - in 1554, the tower clock appeared on it, thirty years later, in 1584, there was a gallery with turrets. The shorter ship had three tent roofs from 1570, the shape of which resembled the chalice - a reflection of the calvary religion of the then population. The ship was extended west in 1612. There is still a "virgin tower" with the year 1616 on the ridge of the roof behind today's front.

The Baroque reconstruction was initiated by Giulio Broggio, which between 1697 (some sources show 1676) to 1703 added the dome chapel of St. Roch and St. John Nepomuk along the sides of the building and the chapel of St. Barbara. His son Octavio Broggio continued in 1717-1724, when he added a side boat and another chapel, while doing a full baroque of the entire building and involving an older medieval tower. Both Broggis were then buried under the presbytery of the church. The stucco works were performed by Franz and Matheus Dollinger, stonework Andreas Kraus, Pilaster warheads made by Petr Bianco and vases with flames Josef Fischer. Bigger repairs took place in 1740- 1746, then externally especially in 1888 and 1925, inside 1897- 1898 and 1935. At the beginning of the 21st century, there was another restoration under the leadership of Dean Karl Havelka.

The present church represents a Baroque building of the longitudinal, basilical type with polygonal presbytery in the Gothic core, which surrounds lower sacristy extensions, side boat and chapel. The three-part facade is highlighted by two continuous vertical pillars with decorative rims. The main portal in the editorial frames the vases and corrugated roms, above which the axis window is turned off. The presbytery in the core of origin from around 1280 document the walled windows preserved under the roof of the northern side chapel. In the interior, the main ship has cross vaults with richly stacked ribs and thick profiled ledge with angel plastic. The high pilasters with Corinthian warheads from Peter Bianka separate the arcades leading to the lateral chapels.

The monument remains an important church of Litoměřice and a witness to its building and art history from the Middle Ages to the modern times.