Gniezno Doors

Gniezno Doors

The Gniezno Doors ( _pl. Drzwi Gnieźnieńskie, _la. Porta Enea, Porta Regia, Broonze Door, Royal Door) are a set of bronze doors in Cathedral in Gniezno, Poland. They are decorated with eighteen scenes from the life of St. Adalbert. According to Archidiosese of Gniezno [ [http://www.archidiecezja.pl/php/index.php?s=25&p=katedra/drzwi Archidiosese of Gniezno] ] they were made in about 1175 in Gniezno during the reign of Mieszko III the Old and are one of the most significant work of romanesque art in Poland. According to a German sociologist Dietmar Albrecht (Ostsee Akademie), the bronze doors were made at Hildesheim. Fact|date=February 2007

ee also

* Gniezno Cathedral
* Adalbert of Prague
* Congress of Gniezno
* Culture of medieval Poland

References

External links

* [http://www.gniezno.home.pl/index.php?p_portal_pokaz=strony&p_strony_idname=1071132853 Images of the Gniezno Door on official website of Gniezno] pl icon
* [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:ZFM84APQFsEJ:www.dietmaralbrecht.de/Fokus_Ostsee/Ars_Baltica/ars_baltica.html+bronzetueren+gnesen&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6 Bronze Doors] de icon


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