History

A parish church in Bielany Wrocławskie (German Bettlern) was mentioned by written records for the first time in 1331. In 1358 it was mentioned as a parish church. The present church is estimated to have been constructed from 1500 to 1530. In 1530, the church was taken over by the Protestant community. In 1654, during the Counter-Reformation activities, the church was returned to the Catholics. In 1621 a chapel and southern porch were added, in 1663 the old vault was reinforced and new vault was built in the chancel. In 1768 a new wooden upper storey of the tower was built with a crowning. In the 19th and 20th century the church was renovated many times.

Description

Oriented church, located in the central part of the village in the vicinity of the manor complex, situated on the opposite side of the road. It is surrounded by a fortified cemetery, fenced with brick wall with buttresses, plastered on the outside.

Masonry structure made of brick. The hall has a two-span chancel and a nave and a rectangular tower on the west side. Brick facades with overburned brick, the upper part of the wooden tower, topped with a helmet with gloriette. From the north a sacristy and a chapel were added to the chancel, as well as a modern catechetical room, a rectangular porch with a half-timbered gable on the south side, and an extension with a staircase leading to the gallery on the west side of the porch. The body of the church is covered with a high ceramic gable roof, the porch covered with a gable roof, the sacristy and a chapel - with a lean-to roof. The chancel is finished with three sharp-edged blind windows. In the side walls of the chancel there are sharp-edged window openings with sandstone traceries, in the eastern wall there are three blind window openings closed with a sharp arch.

In the porch facade there are bas-reliefs of sandstone coat of arms.

The interior with buttresses built inside is divided by a semicircular rood arch. The body of the church - the chancel and the nave - as well as the sacristy and the ground floor of the tower are covered with a cross vault with visible seams. In the chancel there is a preserved late-Gothic recess of the sacramentarium with a representation of Veraikon. On the south wall of the elevation there is a tombstone of Anna née Utmann (1654).

Accessible historic structure.

Compiled Maria Czyszczoń, The Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Wrocław, 28 September 2015.

Bibliography

• Degen K., Die Bau-und Kunstdenkmäler des Landkreises Breslau, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 28-32.
• Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce, Seria Nowa (Catalogue of art monuments in Poland, New series), vol. 4: The Wrocławskie Voivodeship, Journal 2: Sobótka, Kąty Wrocławskie and environs, Warsaw 1991, pp. 3-5.
• Zabytki sztuki w Polsce (Art monuments in Poland), Warsaw 2006, p. 106.