Osječki zbornik, Vol. Vol. 35 No. xx, 2020.
Preliminary communication
Late Medieval architectonic elements as Spolia in Osijek Tvrđa
Mladen Radić
Abstract
The stone and brick remains of the ancient Mursa served in later periods as a source of building material, especially in the construction of the foundations of the buildings. The same happened with the buildings of later periods. Thus the construction of a military fort in the place of medieval and Turkish Osijek resulted in destruction of almost all remains of earlier architecture. Nevertheless, stone as building material was built into military and sacred, and probably civilian objects. A number of stone medieval window-jambs built as reinforcement of the corners of the ramparts that were built by bricks indicate the existence of a medieval palace within the fort. They can be dated back to the 15th century. The half-capital built into the foundations of the former Jesuit monastery is particularly interesting. It is supposed to be an architectural element of a medieval church mentioned only at the location of today’s parish church of St. Michael, i.e. the location of Kasim Pasha’s mosque. Although without direct analogy, we can roughly date it to the late 15th and early 16th centuries..
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Publication date:
31.1.2020.
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