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Religiuos Buildings



Tourism in the region
 Among historical monuments in Brzesko county, religious buildings rank high. Tourists are drawn to Szczepanów, where the patron of Poland, bishop and martyr St. Stanislaus was born. There are several places of St. Stanislaus’ worship in his hometown. One of the most important is a medieval church founded by Jan Długosz’s foundation and enlarged at the beginning of the 20th century. Another is a chapel erected in the place where the saint was born. Inside stands an oak’s trunk, next to which, according to the legend, St. Stanislaus was born. There is a well behind the chapel, in the place of an old stream, where saint’s mother was washing him. Many documented healings took place after drinking water drawn from the miraculous well. At the location of the family house of St. Stanislaus a church was erected (currently serves as a cemetery chapel), which was founded in 1781 by Stanisław Lubimorski, who ,back then, was the owner of Szczepanów. The parochial church consists of two joined together temples, the old one founded by Jan Długosz and the new one build in 1914. St. Stanislaus’ and Margaret’s church was given the title "minor basilica" by the pope John Paul the second.

In Brzesko worth paying attention to is St. Jacobs’  Gothic church with neo-Gothic elements from the 19th and the 20th century. Inside the church one can admire one of the oldest antiquities: the painting of “Our Lady of Perpetual Help”. In Jadowniki worth seeing are remains of Slavic settlement with a small St. Anna’s church  from the 16th century. In Brzesko commune one can’t miss the church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Jasień as well as the brick St. Bartholomew’s church in Poręba Spytkowska.

A very special place in Brzesko county has the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in Porąbka Uszewska, which was consecrated and made available for tourists in 1904. The grotto was built by parish priest Jan Pałka with the intention to draw the faithful closer to the place of the Virgin’s Mary revelation from far away France. The Sanctuary was build from local sandstone and its elevation imitates natural rock. In the outer niche the statue of the Virgin Mary is located. Inside the grotto there is a stone altar leaning on four Neo-Romanesque columns. The Sanctuary is famous for miraculous recoveries and divine graces. Most of the worshipers come to Porąbka Uszewska on the first Sunday of October to take part in church fair in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary and also on the 11th of February for another anniversary of the Revelation of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858. While sightseeing in Czchów especially worth seeing is erected in 1346 the Nativity of the Virgin Mary Church. It is a stone, single nave Gothic temple which lower parts boast the remains of the previous Romanesque construction. Inside the presbytery there is polychrome from 1380 depicting: the scenes from Jesus Christ’s and the Virgin Mary’s life, symbolic and apocryphal scenes. It is said to be one of the most interesting in Europe. Of significant artistic importance are also Renaissance tomb statues of Kasper Wielogłowski and his wife created in the end of the 16th century by Milanese Hieronim Canavesi.

An interesting historical monument in Jurków is an old wooden church dating back to the 16th century, which was renovated in the 18th century. Inside the church there is a Baroque triptych, with the picture of Jesus falling down under the weight of cross, in the centre and two side wings painted bilaterally.

Old wooden churches in Złota and Tymowa from the 16th century welcomes architecture lovers in Czchów commune. In Borzęcin commune St. Mary’s Church can be seen, which was erected 1618 or 1680. At the beginning of the 19th century, the church was destroyed by the fire after which, in 1854, was rebuilt and enlarged. Another extension was conducted between 1912 and 1917. It is kept in eclectic style with slight remains of Baroque architecture in oldest parts of the building. The most precious work of art in this three naved temple is late-Gothic Pieta from the first half of the 16th  century located in the crucifixion altar. Nearby the church there are few saint sculptures.

In neighbouring Bielcza there is St. Mary’s of the Angels church erected between 1906-1908. It consists of two naves and it’s made of brick and stone. Inside there is a historical polychrome and Neo-Gothic altars (the main one and two side altars), a pulpit and a baptismal font.

Especially fascinating is St. Ursula’s wooden church in Gosprzydowa, from 1697, along with a historical belfry. It is a small temple surrounded by arcades with a chapel. The interior is adorned with Baroque decoration. What reminded from the former church are a stone baptismal font and a font dating back to the 15th century.

In Biesiadki one can visit wooden St. Mathew’s parochial church. Inside, the both altars are baroque, the main one, dating back to the 17th century with the 16th-century Pieta and the side altars from the 18th – 19th  century.

In Gnojnik commune worth seeing is also St. Florian’s (the martyr) church in Uszew - made of brick and erected in Baroque - Classical style. Current brick church in Gnojnik was founded by ks. Marek Żegota and Dorota Cohny. It was erected around 1380 in the place of the former wooden church. An interesting tourist attraction in Iwkowa is a wooden cemetery church dating back to the 15th century and a church in Wojakowa. Very charming are also shrines from 17th and 18th century, one of them located by the spring of Urban brook is also called the hermitage of St. Urban. Inside there is a Baroque altar with a picture of St. Urban painted on a wooden board. Nearby the hermitage there is a spring spouting from a rock. While sightseeing Brzesko county tourists can’t miss St. Sebastian’s wooden church in Strzelce Wielkie, which was built in 1785.

There are also many interesting statues in Brzesko county. Worth paying attention to is St. Florian’s statue, which stands in the middle of the Market Square and another St. Florian’s monument in Łęki dating back 1760. In Czchów St. Florian’s statue with a stone lion and statue of St. John of Nepomuk can be seen.   

In Brzesko county remained many histprical cemeteries. In Brzesko itself on the Czarnowiejska street there is a military cemetery from the first World War and a Jewish cemetery, a place of pilgrimage by many orthodox Jews. On the Kościuszki street there is a parochial cemetery from around 1813, which holds historical tomb stones and plaques. At the front the Tomb of the Unknown soldier is located.