Recenzja książki Magdaleny Poradzisz „Kościół szpitalny Trójcy Świętej przy ulicy Świdnickiej we Wrocławiu”
Review of the book by Magdalena Poradzisz "Holy Trinity Hospital Church at Świdnicka Street in Wrocław"

Summary/Abstract: In March 1870 the Corpus Christi Hospital and Trinity Church in Świdnicka Street in Wrocław were pulled down. Located in a district that, over the span of the first decades of the 19th century, became a highly representative part of the city, simple and meager buildings of late-medieval origin did not serve its standards. And as such, they have not drawn the attention of art historians so far. Magdalena Poradzisz in her book ‘Kościół szpitalny Trójcy Świętej przy ul. Świdnickiej we Wrocławiu’ (‘St. Trinity Hospital Church in Świdnicka Street in Wrocław’) systematises the complicated history of the building, tries to reconstruct its architectural form and changes of its facilities over the centuries.Based on the archival sources, the author organises data concerning the history of the hospital buildings. She analyses the iconography of the church and examines the hospital-church structure in its closest environment as well as from the perspective of the entire city with its late-medieval hospital infrastructure. Much attention is devoted to the patronage of the city council and patron’s intentions behind the commission. Extensively discussed adjustments to the interior, executed in the age of the Reformation according to the new confessional circumstances, are seen in the wide context of analogous Silesian examples.This scholarly study brings back the memory of the no longer existing architectural structure and makes essential conclusions on its history. The monograph of a foundation, including a brief analysis of its ideological continuation - the 19th century hospital and church located in the suburbs of the city - is an important contribution to the history of hospital architecture in Wrocław.

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