The current cathedral is a three-nave Gothic
oriented basilica surrounded by an ambulatory. The cathedral has three entrances: the main western portal and two later entrances from the north and south.
Chapels • Behind the choir are three chapels: •
Chapel of St. Elizabeth in the south was built 1682-1700 as the mausoleum of Bishop
Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt. The chapel was dedicated to St.
Elizabeth of Hungary, whose cult had been popular in the city since the Middle Ages. It is a fine example of baroque architecture and forms the counterpoint of the Elector's Chapel. The design was probably the work of Giacome Schianzi, who is also credited with the paintings in the dome, which, along with wall paintings by Andreas Kowalski, show the death, burial, and heavenly glory of St. Elizabeth. The statue of St. Elizabeth was created by
Ercole Ferrata, a student of
Bernini's. Facing the altar on the other side of the chapel is the cardinal's tomb, the work of
Domenico Guidi, another of Bernini's pupils. It depicts the kneeling cardinal surrounded by allegories of Truth and Eternity. Above the door to the church is a bust of the cardinal executed by the workshop of Bernini. • The Gothic
Marian Chapel directly behind the choir was built by the architect Peschel under the orders of Bishop
Przecław of Pogorzela from 1354 to 1365. Apart from the tomb of its founder it is also contains the tomb of Bishop
Johann IV Roth, the work of Peter Fischer the Elder of Nuremberg. A famous story from World War II concerned a famously beautiful marble statue of the Virgin and Child, created by
Carl Johann Steinhäuser in 1854, that was kept in the chapel. When the Russians bombed the cathedral, the flames miraculously stopped in front of the fallen statue, preserving the three back chapels from destruction. Despite the fall, bombing, and general destruction, the statue remained unharmed. • The northern Baroque '''Elector's Chapel
, or the Chapel of
Corpus Christi''', was built from 1716 to 1724 as the mausoleum of bishop
Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg. Francis Louis was also bishop of
Trier and
Magdeburg, making him one of the electors eligible to choose the
Holy Roman Emperor, hence the name of the chapel. The designer was the Viennese architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. The decorative paintings were the work of
Carlo Carlone and the sculptures that of
Ferdinand Brokoff. • The
Chapel of St. John the Baptist, adjacent to the north-east tower of the cathedral, was built in 1408 and later rebuilt as the mausoleum of bishop
Johann V Thurzo. • The
Redeemer Chapel, now the
Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, was built 1671-72 by the order of the canon Johann Jacob Brunetti to a design by Carlo Rossi. The stucco decoration was the work of Domenico Antonio Rossi. The chapel contains epitaphs or its founder and his brother, auxiliary bishop Johann Brunetti. It is located at the fourth bay of the south aisle. • The
Chapel of the Resurrection, formerly the
Mortuary Chapel, was built in 1749 through a donation of Dean Johann Christoph von Rummerskirch to a possible design by Bartholomäus Wittwer. The screen was the work of Felix Anton Scheffler: the stucco work and paintings by and . It is located in the second bay of the north aisle. • The
Chapel of St. Casimir, formerly dedicated to
St. Leopold, was formerly the home of a famous triptych commissioned in 1468 by the canon Peter von Wartenberg. However, after World War II the painting was sent to the
National Museum, Warsaw.
Bells == Burials ==