A SHORT ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY The city and parish Church of St. Nicholas was founded around 1165. The church was located at the intersection of two important north-south, east-west trade routes. It was dedicated to Nicholas, the medieval patron saint of merchants and wholesalers. Even today it is still situated among office buildings in the city centre with its doors open to visitors from all over the world. The church was originally built in the Romanesque architectural style prominently displayed on the western facade. In the early 16th Century the building was extended to form a late Gothic hall church and has retained this shape up t...

Germans in Warsaw Before WWII the Polish capital had over one million residents, of which less than two thousand were of German origin. In 1934 a local NSDAP agency started operating at the German embassy in Warsaw. By that time the NSDAP had become the sole legal party in the Third Reich, fully subordinated to Hitler following the rule „one nation, one party, one Führer". The Nazis indoctrinated the Germans living in Warsaw, among others, through a monthly paper entitled „Idee und Wille", spreading Goebbels-style propaganda. The Germans living in Warsaw fully supported the occupying forces from the very beginning of war. Officials syste...

St. Mary's Basilica is a classic example of Gothic architecture in Poland. It was built between the end of the 13 th century and the beginning of the 15 th century, on the foundations of an earlier Romanesque church, which was erected in the early part of the 13 th century. It has a three aisle basilica-like body. The façade is framed by two characteristic towers: the bugle tower (81 m) and the bell tower (69 m). The famous bugle call is played every hour from the higher tower. ALTARS BY THE PILLARS By the pillars, separating the main nave from the side aisles, and in the side aisles themselves, there are Baroque altars founded in the...

Aleksander Zienkiewicz was born in the village of Lembówka in the Vilnius region, into a deeply religious family of Jadwiga née Wróblewska and Kazimierz Zienkiewicz, as the oldest of twelve siblings. After graduating from primary school, he entered the Minor Seminary in Nowogródek, which soon changed its name to Bishop's Junior High School for Men and was moved to Drohiczyn. Then he studied (1931-1938) at the Major Seminary of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Pińsk. He was ordained a priest by the Ordinary of Pińsk, Bishop Kazimierz Bukraba (April 3, 1938). He celebrated the first Holy Mass ceremony (April 17, 1938) at the grave of St. Andrew ...

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE around 800 Construction of the first cathedral 1090 Consecration of the second cathedral 1265 Consecration of the third cathedral 1408 First astronomical clock 1534 Destruction of the clock by the Anabaptists 1540 Second astronomical clock 1670 Renewal of the rete 1696 First renovation of the mechanism 1930-1932 Renewal of the rete and second renovation of the mechanism TECHNICAL DETAILS Height of the clock 7.8 m Width of the central part 4.1 m Diameter of the clock face 3.0 m - of the calendar disk 1.5 m - of the pictures of the months 14.5 cm Height of the table of planets 2.3 m - of the figure of St Paul 30.0 cm - ...

The Franciscan Church in Paderborn was built between 1668 and 1671 and is dedicated to Saint Joseph. The church and monastery were destroyed in a bomb attack on March 27, 1945. Only the outer walls remained standing. The rich interior of the church burned down. The baroque cross - vaulted hall was later restored. The interior was initially very simple. It was not until the 1950s that a baroque statue of the Jesus Mother and a statue of St. Anthony by the Munich artist Hermann Rösner were placed where the side altars used to be. During the penultimate renovation in 1985/1986, an attempt was made to re-paint the church and add more scul...

Abschied und neubeginn 1803 Säkularisaton des abdinghofklosters 200 Jahre Evangelischer Gottesdienst in Paderborn

Die Gründung eines evangelischen Posaunenchores im Paderborn wurde bereits am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts geplant. Nachdem die ersten sechs Instrumente gekauft worden waren, konnte Anfang Sommer 1903 die erste Übungsstunde unter Leitung von Herrn Kabelitz stattfinden. Übungsraum war sowohl die „Herberge zur Heimat“ als auch der Keller des St. Johannisstiftes. Der Posaunenchor entstand wie in vielen Gemeinden Minden-Ravensbergs als Nebenabteilung des Männer- und Jünglingsvereins. Zu den ersten Bläsern gehörten Heinrich Westphal, Wilhelm vom Heede, Paul Häschel, Karl Raabe, Eduard Calmus und H. Pligge. Die Chorleitung übernahm 1905 Vikar Joha...