Baroque parish house in Velika Nedelja
Jožef Hoffer’s rebuilding plans
Keywords:
Velika Nedelja, late-Baroque architecture, parish house, Jožef Hoffer, construction designs, profane architecture, Teutonic OrderAbstract
The article discusses the Baroque parish house in Velika Nedelja, the most luxurious and archivally documented parish house in Slovenia. The discussion focuses on its Baroque rebuilding and extension as well as plans for it. The 4x8 axial single-storey architecture is one of the four buildings that form the urban part of the settlement standing to the west of the church and the castle. The plans for it were drawn by the most important late-Baroque architect from Lower Styria, Jožef Hoffer. The parish house was built between 1749 and 1751, and soon after that (still in the eighteenth century), most rooms on the first floor were painted. Hoffer’s preserved designs reinforce the attributions made regarding other secular buildings that are attributed to him, such as Hoffer’s house in Maribor, the mansions Gornja Bedekovčina, Zgornja Polskava, and the Jarenina manor.
