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- Title
"By all means we must start this very year, or else we can give the new church up as lost." About the Unrealised Building of the New St Magdalene's Church in Maribor.
- Authors
Lazarini, Franci
- Abstract
On the threshold of the 20th century, the growing number of worshippers in the Maribor parish of St Magdalene, the then largest parish in the Lavantine diocese, had led to the initiative of building a new church or amplifying the existing one. For several decades the project occupied the Magdalene parish priests, especially Anton Stergar, and died away only with the start of World War II and the post-war era, which was unfavourable for building churches. In almost four decades several projects for the new sacred building were proposed; projects by architects Hans Pascher, Jože Plečnik (together with France Tomažič), Ivan Vurnik and Maks Czeike are preserved either in part or in their entirety. The article deals with the preserved plans and, based on archival sources and notices in the daily press, brings a survey of the occurrences from the first initiatives for a new church at the end of the 19th century up to the dissolution of the building committee after World War II. The role of the parish priest Stergar is particularly exposed, especially with regard to his attitude towards individual designs as well as his supposed responsibility for the failure of the project.
- Subjects
MARIBOR (Slovenia); MARY Magdalene, Saint, fl. 1st century; CHURCH architecture; CLASSICAL influences on modernism (Art); PASCHER, Hans; STERGAR, Anton; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Acta Historiae Artis Slovenica, 2014, Vol 19, Issue 1, p209
- ISSN
1408-0419
- Publication type
Article