„Um in die innern Räume die erwünschte Harmonie zu tragen”. Dziewiętnastowieczne wyposażenie wrocławskiego kościoła św. Wojciecha
"In the inner ring, the new harmonies are lost". The 19th-century furnishings of the St. Wojciech Church in Wrocław

Summary/Abstract: In the mid years of the 19th century the movement of ‘Christian art’ revival was formed in the German Catholic Church. In Wrocław of this time one can notice numerous interesting artistic undertakings of church origins, connected both with erecting new buildings and renovating, furnishing and decorating the already existing churches. Not many examples of the ‘Christian art’ revival in Wrocław have been preserved; they are also merely documented. St. Adalbert Church is an exception as we can make use of many archival photographs of it kept in the Herder Institute in Marburg, which document also the elements of its 19th-century decoration. These photos, as well as some other sources, were the basis for an attempt to reconstruct the not preserved 19th-century decoration of St. Adalbert Church. In the article there are presented: the neo-Gothic main altar of 1855 with Raphael Schall’s painting; two neo-Gothic side altars of the same time, one of them with a painting by Theodor Hamacher; the cycle of thirteen paintings of apostels by Schall, Hamacher, Carl Wohnlich and Heinrich König the Younger, released from the 1850s to 1872; Julius Schneider’s painting from around 1865 dedicated to the Baroque side altar and stained glasses made between 1865 to 1880s by Adolph Seiler’s atelier in Wrocław.

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