Josef Mocker was an architect who restored and completed Gothic buildings in Prague in the 1870s and 1880s.
Josef Mocker was an architect who restored and completed Gothic buildings in Prague in the 1870s and 1880s.[1][2] In the late 19th century he also led the re-Gothicisation of the deanery Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Mount Tábor, which took place mainly inside the building. [3] The church dates from the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries; in the presbytery, a Baroque altar from the late 18th century was replaced by a new Gothic-style altar more than 13 metres high, which cost almost six thousand gulden. [3]
Powder Tower
The present form of the Powder Tower dates from 1875–1886. At that time Mocker restored it and completed it in the pseudo-Gothic style, in cooperation with prominent Czech sculptors.[1]
Old Town Bridge Tower
After damage in the revolution of 1848, the Old Town Bridge Tower was repaired from 1854. A further repair in 1874–1880 followed Mocker's designs. The sculptural decoration was partly replaced by copies, and the tower received a newly built parapet walkway. The passageway was painted by Petr Maixner.[2]
The old pewter font from 1482 in Tábor was replaced by a marble one, and both the altar and the font were created for the 50th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I. [3]
In 1923 the district political administration ordered that inscriptions commemorating the monarch be removed from the altar and the font, and the municipality had them ground off and replaced with new ones. [3]
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- Lesser Town Bridge Towers
- Old Town Bridge Tower
- Powder Tower (Prague)
- Vyšehrad