Preliminary communication

Churches with Square Sanctuarz in Northern Croatia

Zdenko Balog ; Pučko otvoreno učilište u Križevcima

Abstract

The study deals with the problem of churches with square sanctuary in Northern Croatia. The incentive for the investigation was the establishing of a rather coherent group of monuments in the Kalnik and Zagoirje region. The study focuses on the common cultural features and the origins of the monuments, and on possible links with a larger group of monuments, which eventually crosses the borders of Croatia. The study has established enough common features to enable us to speak of a coherent typological group, but also of individual monuments which do not belong to it. Thus we suspect a superficial influence from the Carinthian-Styrian group of “Chorturm” churches (in one case), as well as the presence of some still Romanesque buildings of similar form. In conclusion, the key infl uence was exercised by some monumental gothic church building – possibly the lost Augustinian church in Križevci.

Keywords

square sanctuary; "Chorturm"; Northern Croatia; the Kalnik group; Križevci; Belec; rural parish churches and chapels

Hrčak ID:

147935

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/147935

Publication date:

15.12.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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