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Church of St Peter and St Paul Traditional Cache

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taska: I hope someone else (a local cacher) can place here a cache as this place worth a visit! Thanks for everyone who found it!
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taska

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Hidden : 1/1/2010
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Osijekis the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 114,616 in 2001. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county. Osijek is located on the right bank of the river Drava, 25 kilometres (16 mi) upstream of its confluence with the Danube, at an elevation of 94 metres (310 ft).


Church of St Peter and St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul (Sv Petar I Pavao) is a Neo-Gothic structure, was built in 1898 on the initiative of Ðakovo-based Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer. It has the second highest tower in Croatia after the Zagreb Cathedral. The tower measure 90m / 295 ft and can be seen from throughout Osijek. Because of its size most locals refer to it as the cathedral but it is only a parish church. The Church of St Peter and St Paul was designed by Franz Langenberg and contains 40 stained glass windows, although they are not all intact after the bombing in the 1990s. The church also contains sculptures by Eduard Hauser.




Osjecka konkatedrala Svetog Petra i Pavla je drugostolna crkva Ðakovacko-osjecke nadbiskupije. Sagradena je u neogotickom stilu.

Osjecku konkatedralu dao je sagraditi biskup tadašnje Ðakovacke i Srijemske biskupije, Josip Juraj Strossmayer. On je godine 1866. dao prvi poticaj za gradnju nove crkve. Tada je, na mjestu današnje crkve, bila Gornjogradska župna crkva iz 1732. koja je postala premala i neugledna crkva za nove gradevine u Osijeku. Patron župe, grad Osijek, 1870. je utvrdio nacin dobivanja novca za izgradnju nove crkve. Medutim, taj proces je bio veoma spor, sve do dolaska novog župnika Josipa Horvata. Nakon njegova dolaska proces je bio ubrzan, pa je 1892. raspisan natjecaj za nacrte. Na natjecaju je pobijedio njemacki arhitekt Franz Langenberg. 1894. stara je crkva srušena, i tada je zapocela izgradnja današnje konkatedrale. 1898. godine crkva je izvana dovršena, pa se unutrašnje uredenje nastavilo. 2 godine kasnije (1900.) posvetu današnje crkve obavio je biskup Josip Juraj Strossmayer. Tijekom Domovinskoga rata, 1991. godine, konkatedrala je bila više od 100 puta izravno pogodena projektilima. Ipak, i za vrijeme rata u konkatedrali su se obavljala bogoslužja. Do 18. lipnja 2008. godine ova je konkatedrala bila samo Župna crkva Sv. Petra i Pavla, u Osijeku popularno nazvana "katedrala" , ali uspostavom Ðakovacko-osjecke nadbiskupije, ova crkva dobiva dostojanstvo konkatedrale.

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