Prace konserwatorskie w Krakowie w roku 2020 dofinansowane ze środków Narodowego Funduszu Rewaloryzacji Zabytków Krakowa

Abstract

CONSERVATION WORKS IN KRAKÓW IN 2020 CO-FINANCED FROM THE RESOURCES OF THE NATIONAL FUND FOR RESTORATION OF KRAKÓW MONUMENTS

It was with great sadness that the Social Committee bid farewell to its chairman, Professor Franciszek Ziejka, PhD. As in previous years, the selection of tasks was based on guidelines formulated since 1990. Using the amount of approx. PLN 30 million and comparable funds from donors, 117 tasks were implemented in 87 facilities. The most important of these include the completion of the conservation of Wit Stwosz’s Altar in St Mary’s Church, and the completion of the conservation of the royal sarcophagi and the interior of the chapterhouse in the Wawel Cathedral. At St. Mary’s Church, the conservation of stone elements (plinth, south entrance portal, tombstones, epitaphs, memorial plaques) outside the presbytery was commenced. In the Franciscan monastery, work continued on the cloisters, intended to be open to the public as a unique set of late-Gothic wall paintings and a gallery of portraits of the bishops of Kraków, accumulated since the 16th century. In the Piarist Church, the conservation of the underground part (the Holy Steps) was completed, while in the monastery another late Baroque painting decoration was discovered. In the complex of the post-Jesuit Church of Saints Peter and Paul, archaeological research work continued on the National Pantheon, in accordance with the idea of Professor Ziejka. Research and conservation work was carried out in bourgeois townhouses, e.g. in św. Jana Street (serving as the headquarters of the Society of Friends of Kraków History and Heritage), with elements of old decorations revealed. In the Kazimierz district, the longterm cycle of conservation of the interior furnishings in the Corpus Christi Church was continued; other ongoing tasks were conservation of the southern elevation (with the stone aisle and porch) of the Augustinian Church of St Catherine and St Margaret, and research and conservation of the archaeological preserve on the southern side of the Pauline Church on Skałka. Within the Jewish Kazimierz district, further work was carried out on both cemeteries and the Tempel Synagogue. As regards works on the outskirts of the city, of particular importance are the projects carried out at the Premonstratensian Sisters Church in Zwierzyniec (conservation of the late Romanesque portal), at the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec and the Cistercian Abbey in Mogiła, and at the defensive works of the Austrian Fortress.