Dear Steemians,

During our stay in Schweidnitz in Lower Silesia, we naturally did not miss to visit the cathedral of the city. This absolutely gigantic building is just beautiful. If you stand in front of this cathedral, it just stifles your breath because of its size. Inside, the cathedral impresses with its splendor and splendor.

The St. Stanislaus and St. Wenceslaus Cathedral (Polish: Katedra św. Stanisława i św. Wacława ) also called Świdnica Cathedral It is a historical monument and a main Catholic building in Swidnica, Poland, Cathedral of the diocese of the same name.
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The building is dominated by a slender Gothic tower with a height of 104 meters, the largest in the region. The construction of the current church began in 1330 at the behest of Duke Bolko II of Świdnica, following a fire that destroyed a first wooden building that was there. The new building, in Gothic style, was designed as a three-aisled basilica. Between 1400 and 1410, and was expanded after the fire of 1532 it became greatly. Work began in 1535 and ended in 1546 with the aim of giving the church its current appearance.
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From 1561 to 1629 the church was made official by Protestants but in 1662 went to the Jesuits, who in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they add the sumptuous baroque furniture and decorations that still characterize the interior. With the gradual expulsion of the Jesuits of Prussian Silesia, the church was secularized in 1772, when the Prussian authorities made him a barn.
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The church was deeply renovated between 1893 and 1895 but lost many of its original architectural features. On March 25, 2004, with the bull Multos fructus, of Pope John Paul II, established the Catholic Diocese of Świdnica, and the building became the cathedral.
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