Aula palatium lednickiego

• Authors: Kaszubkiewicz Andrzej

Title variants

EN

Assembly Hall of Lednica Palace

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The reconstruction of an assembly hall of the Lednica Palace, described by the author in 1996, was possible after the so-called Lednica arcade had been localized in the object. It was explained thanks to comparing the Lednica Palace with palatial objects of that and somewhat later periods in Germany. The arcade is composed of the remains of three arcs stretched between the western and eastern walls of the ground floor room. The arcs were supported by the two square pillars still seen nowadays (Kaszubkiewicz 1996). This construction supported the hall — the most magnificent interior in the palace. The construction drawing of the hall was presented in 2000 at the exhibition entitled “Otto III in Poland” in the newly adapted room in the barn in Dziekanowice, and also in the article in the sixth volume of Studia Lednickie — the Lednica Study (Kaszubkiewicz 2000), as well as in the article above (fig. 2). While explaining the function of the arcade supporting the hall in the western part of the palace, one cannot ignore the issue of the time relations between individual elements of the building. Various construction phases of the object may be suggested on the basis of constructional differences between the foundations of the outer walls and the foundations of the pillars in the ground floor rooms and other elements of the buildings (Żurowska ed. 1993). However, in the author’s opinion, it might not constitute a sufficient premise for solving the question of the arcade’s function. The construction requirements of the separate elements of the building performing different functions, often made of various materials, allow for, or even extort, diversified solutions. Zygmunt Świechowski, although due to other reasons than those put forward by the authors of the monograph from 1993, dates the arcade back to a later period; “it might have been built for the castellany needs, using carefully prepared blocks” (Świechowski 2005). Assuming the tenth–eleventh century as the time when the architecture of the Lednica palace was erected, it is a very professional construction. Differentiated rock material (granites, sandstones, limestones and many other rocks) was used during the construction. A choice of architectonic details was made of these rocks including: wedge-like blocks, frames, keystones, lintels, staircase, eaves, capitals and so on. Examining the architectonic details existing in the Lednica palace in terms of their application (Kaszubkiewicz 2000), the author came to a conclusion that they were used at the beginning of the building as they can be seen in the original parts of the walls. The whole layout must have been of a single phase in its relatively short-lasting heyday (until the middle of the eleventh c.).

• Publisher: Muzeum Pierwszych Piastów na Lednicy
• Journal: Studia Lednickie
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Pages: 117-121

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Kaszubkiewicz Andrzej

• Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zabytkami Oddział w Poznaniu

References

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Identifiers

ISSN

0860-7893