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Dispute about St. Vit´s Catedral
Thu, 10 May 2007 20:51
Prague
St. Vit´s Cathedral
St. Vit´s Cathedral is a famous gothic-style Czech cathedral situated at the 3rd court of Prague Castle. It is the most significant religious building in the Czech Republic. Dispute about the St. Vitu´s CathedralUntil the 1954 the Cathedral was controlled by the Church, but the communistic regime passed a law by which it made itself the owner â together with all the people. After the 1989 revolution the dispute started. There has been an ongoing dispute about the St. Vitu´s Cathedral between the Czech Government and Church. This dispute has already lasted for about 15 years â it started in 1992. In 1992 the Church brought a lawsuit against the Czech Presidents´ office. They wanted to gain a declaratory judgment about the ownership of the Cathedral. In 1994 the district court of Prague 1 took a decision that the owner of the St. Vitu´s Cathedral is the Catholic Metropolitan Church. The Presidents´ office together with the Prague Castle administration made a protest against this decision. The Municipal court returned the case back to the district court. In 1998 a group of 44 Czech government representatives appealed to constitutional court with a request to annul three legislative acts issued in the 50´s on basis of which the Cathedral was taken from the Church. The court did not oblige. In 2005 the district court decided that the Cathedral belongs to the Church. The Office for Government Representation appealed to the Municipal court, which confirmed the previous decision. The Office of the Government Representation in Property Affairs appealed to the Supreme Court, but in the meantime the Prague Castle administration had to hand the Cathedral over to the Church. The Church immediately started to collect an entrance fee. Recently, in February 2007, the Supreme Court annulled the previous judgment of returning the Cathedral back to the Church. Today both Prague citizens and tourists can visit the St. Vitu´s Cathedral without paying any entrance fee. So who is the owner?This quarrel at law is very interesting because it is practically impossible to identify the owner of the building in the time it was built because according to the way of thinking in the medieval times a church was basically its own owner. The Church only controlled the church but was not its owner. Nevertheless the Monarchy was also not the owner and nor was the Country⌠|
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