Kallundborg Kirke

der før Grunden udgravedes til Esbern Snares Kirke. Det har tilmed i levedygtige, nyskabende Tider i Arkitekturen aldrig været Sæd og Skik at tage altfor direkte Lære af umoderne Bygninger. Og dog vil det være muligt at opretholde Tanken om Lombardiet og særlig Milano som Stedet for Kallundborg Kirkes Herkomst. Her stod, netop i 12te Aarh., Teglstensarkis tekturen i sin højeste Blomstring. Teknik og Konstruktioner havde naaet en betydelig Fuldkommenhed og er paa væsent* lige Punkter analoge med den danske Kirkes. Og naar et eller flere tydelige Forbilleder for Kallundborg Kirke ikke har væ* ret at paavise i Norditaliens Stæder, har det sin rimelige For* klaring i det højst beklagelige Forhold, at af den rige roman* ske Bygningskunst, der gjorde særlig Milano til den fornemste By i de Tiders arkitektoniske Virke i Italien og langt udenfor dette Lands Grænser, er saare lidt bevaret. Frederik Barba* rossas Hævn ramte den blomstrende Stad paa frygtelig Vis. 1162 blev Byen hærget og ødelagt og ved den følgende Genop* bygning blev Byen en anden. Milano kan have ejet Bygningsværker, vi nu ikke kender, men som meget muligt vilde bekræfte, hvad der her kun kan fremsættes som en Formodning — at Bygmesteren for Kab lundborg Kirke maa have kendt kirkelig lombardisk Arkitekt tur af Selvsyn og muligvis selv have hørt hjemme i Lombard diet. V. L. was broken. Moreover in viable, creative, architectural pe* riods it has never been the custom to seek too direct instruc* tion from buildings no longer modern. Yet it is impossible to dismiss the thought that in Lombardy, and more especially in Milan, the origin of Kallundborg Church is to be sought. Here, and just in the 12th century, brick architecture stood in its flower. Technical details and construction had attained a great degree of perfection and at important points are analogous to those in this Danish church. If it is impossible to actually point out one or several prototypes for Kallundborg Church in northern Italy, the explanation lies in the very*much*to*be* regretted fact that of the rich Romanesque architecture which made Milan the most important city from an architectural point of view of those times in Italy, and indeed far outside the boundaries of that country as well, very little still exists. The revenge of Frederick Barbarossa fell with frightful might upon that fair capital. In 1162 the city was harried and destroyed, and when rebuilt, it was quite another. Milan may have possessed buildings we no longer know, but which would very possibly confirm what here can only be urged as a conjecture, — that the architect of Kallundborg Church must have been acquainted with the ecclesiastical ar; chitecture of Lombardy through personal knowledge and may even have been a native of Lombardy. V. L. 36