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Church of St Hedwig - Zabytek.pl

Church of St Hedwig


church the begining of 15th century Bolesławice

Address
Bolesławice, 11

Location
woj. dolnośląskie, pow. świdnicki, gm. Jaworzyna Śląska - obszar wiejski

Late Gothic stone church, modernised in the 1st half of the 19th century, located on a hill in the village centre.

Surrounded by an old cemetery and fenced with stone wall. The wall is built on a circle plan with a radius of approximately 23 m. and a height of about 3 m., supported by buttresses. In the south of the church there is an entrance gate with a sharp-edged stone portal.

History

The town hall, erected in years 1432-1433, was designed to replace its older, wooden predecessor, most likely lost to the blaze in 1427. The new town hall was subsequently extended in years 1525-35 by Wendel Rosskopf and Johann Lindner, with the works in question including but not limited to the extension of the eastern wing. Having partially burned down in 1642, it was restored over the next couple of years, with the works completion in 1659. In 1776-1781, the town hall was redesigned into the Baroque style, with the master brickmason named Boehm being involved in the construction process. The building was subsequently modernised and restored on numerous occasions in 1810, 1839, 1847, 1891-96 and in modern times: 1964-65, 1974-75, 1985-88 and approx. 2000.

Description

The church is located in the northern part of the village, on a small hill which used to serve as the middle yard of the original circular village (Rundling) which had existed on this spot ages before. 

The church was mentioned in written records for the first time in 1318. The current Late Gothic church was erected at the beginning of 16th century; it was subsequently extended in 1561, modernised in years 1836 and 1926 and restored in 1959 and in the years 1966-1974.

The church is a single-nave structure. The nave was designed on a square floor plan and covered with a stellar vault; the former chancel, rectangular in shape and currently serving as a chapel, adjoins the nave to the east. The chancel features a groin vault with pronounced ribs. A sacristy with a vaulted ceiling of the barrel type adjoins the chancel to the north. The former chapel, built in 1516 and currently serving as the chancel, adjoins the nave to the north; it is designed on a rectangular floor plan and features a vaulted ceiling of the lierne type. The tower, designed on a square floor plan and originally featuring a groin vault in its ground floor section, adjoins the nave to the west. A porch can be found on the southern side of the church. As a result of the alteration works performed over the years, the church has lost its original, eastwards orientation and is now oriented to the north.It is covered with gable roofs clad with roof tiles. 

A pointed-arch stone portal in the southern wall leads into the nave, while the sacristy can be accessed through an elliptical portal, also made of stone. The former chancel (now the eastern chapel) features a window framed with a chamfered trefoil surround; a stone window surround bearing the date 1516 as well as a coat of arms and the monogram “WT” (Wencelaus Thommendorf) can be found in the western wall of the current chancel. A stone sacramentary of 1515. Inside the church, there are remains of wall polychrome dating back to early 17th century, a collection of oil paintings, a 1639 epitaph plaque. The main altarpiece is modern.

The church is surrounded by the old cemetery (no longer in active use), around which an oval wall made of stone was built in the 17th century; this wall, supported by buttresses, features a small wicket gate with a pointed-arch stone portal.

The church and the wicket gate are mostly closed; the building can be viewed from outside the wall.

Compiled by Krzysztof Czartoryski, The Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Wrocław, 26 March 2015.

Bibliography

  • Zabytki Sztuki w Polsce. Śląsk (Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia), Warsaw 2006.
  • Słownik geografii turystycznej Sudetów (Dictionary of Tourist Geography of the Sudeten Mountains), vol. 20, Wrocław 2005.

Category: church

Architecture: Gothic

Building material:  stone

Protection: Register of monuments, Monuments records

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_02_BK.86069, PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_E_02_BK.105563