MODERN FORMS IN THE RESTORATION OF SACRAL BUILDINGS

The Cathedral was re-built in the 1895 — 1897 period, according to H. Bol/e\u27s project, in the neo-Gothic style, referring to the 14lh century when an Augustinian monastery had existed in the area, changed into a Baroque Franciscan one since the 17th cenfury The Hol y Cross Churcb f rom the 13th — 14th century, with a presevved Gothic sanctuary and a nave baroquized in the 18th century, was restored in 1912 — 1913 as the first building according to the recommendations of the Board for Protection of Ar t and H>storical Monuments, founded in 1910. A proposal given by D. Sunko t o re-gothicize the churcb according to the t races on the building and descriptions from the r ecords >vas declined. A procjet by S. Podhorski, preserving the then present state but erecting the ruinous tou er and the pre»iously den>olished vestry in the Jugendsty/e forms n\u27as adopted. Due to the concurrence of events, opposing approaches to restoration came into collision, i.e. stylistic uniformity> in the spirit of historisn>, and presar»ation instead of restoration, initiating the period of Modernism wit h i t s ini t ial out lines for the protection of monuments gi»en in A. Riegl\u27s paper entitled »Der moderne Denkmalkultus sein Wesen seine Entstehune«. Today, the style of the Cathedval as an expression of the modem taste may be re-e»aluated, extending the sense ofRiegl\u27s»artistic cravingsa to historism