St. Wenceslas Catholic Church in Olomouc

  • Catholic Wedding Ceremony
  • Located in the center of the town of Olomouc
  • Ceremony in English
  • Seated Capacity of 100 guests
  • Ceremony lasts approximately 30 minutes, or 1 hour if ceremony includes a full holy mass.
  • Latest Ceremony time is 4:00 pm

Please note that divorced people can not remarry in the Catholic Church, no matter if previous marriage was in church or office.

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About St. Wenceslas Church

...In early 12th century, Prince Svatopluk began the construction of a new church, of St Wenceslas (St Václav, in Czech), in the area of the new castle. His death in 1109 prevented him from finishing the church. His son Václav was also unable to finish the construction; shortly before his death he donated the unfinished church to the Bishop of Olomouc, Jindrich Zdik. Bishop Zdik consecrated the church on June 30, 1131 and when the construction was completed, he transferred his bishopric to the new church (in late 1141) and established there a chapter with twelve canons. North of the cathedral was built a beautiful Romanesque bishop's palace (the so-called Premysl palace), with the seat of the chapter. Twelfth-century sources call this complex of buildings "monasterium St. Venzeslai" (Munster). St Wenceslas Cathedral was a Romanesque basilica with a nave and two aisles, about 60 metres long.

In 1265, Bishop Bruno started its rebuilding in the Gothic style. The western front with two Romanesque prism-shaped towers was left unaltered, but the nave and the aisles were rebuilt into a Gothic-style hall. Its vaulting and large Gothic windows originated, however, in the period of further rebuilding in the l4th century.

In the second half of the 16th century, Bishop Stanislav II Pavlovsky had the western front redone in Renaissance style by building the middle large tower. In early 19th century, the front of the cathedral received a Classicist appearance. It remained unchanged until 1883, when Neogothic rebuilding started. After the reconstruction of the whole cathedral, the southern tower, 150 metres high, became a new dominating feature of Olomouc.