History of the structure

The church was built around 1585 by the Frankenberg family (the first known owners of the village - they owned it until the beginning of the 18th century) and originally belonged to Evangelicals. From 1960 it has been a branch of the Roman Catholic parish of the Visitation of the Blesses Virgin Mary in Polanowice. In the second half of the 20th century some of the original furnishings were removed and the polychromes with coats of arms in the presbytery part were unveiled. In the early 1990s the roof sheathing was replaced.

Description of the structure

The church is an oriented building, located in the eastern part of the village, right at the fork of the roads from Bruny towards Proślice and Skałagi. It is located in the former manor-farm complex, within the manor park in its north-western part. It is surrounded by a small cemetery and enclosed by a brick and wooden fence. The ground plan of the church consists of a rectangular nave, a narrower triangular chancel, a rectangular sacristy adjoining the northern wall, and a tower on a square-shaped plan added to the west. It is a wooden object, built as a log structure on a brick foundation, with a tower featuring a pole construction, the walls of which narrowing towards the top reach the roof ridge. On the northwest side of the tower there is a small annex, serving as a storeroom. The body of the church is covered with a uniform gable roof, common for the aisle and the chancel. The gable roof is shaped from the east in a way that corresponds to the polygonal layout of the chancel walls, creating prominent eaves over it. The tower is topped with an octagonal pyramidal roof covered with shingles, similar to the saddle roof. The outer walls of the temple are boarded with planks arranged vertically, with slats at the joint. The interior of the aisle is illuminated by small, straight closed windows; in the chancel, on each of its sides - a rectangular window. The upper floor of the tower has bell windows shielded by wooden shutters. The interior of the church was covered with a flat wooden, boarded ceiling. On the border of the aisle and the chancel, there are rood corners, decorated with a decorative strip. In the western part of the aisle there is a wooden choir gallery, supported on two square pillars, with a bulging projection on the axis and a board window sill; it passes into galleries at the southern and northern walls. Among the mostly preserved equipment of the church, the following should be mentioned: the Regency main altar and Classicist folk organs from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Visitor access: The monument can be viewed from the outside.

Author: Katarzyna Latocha, Regional Branch of the National Institute of Cultural Heritage in Opole, 27-06-2018

Bibliography

• Katalog Zabytków Sztuki w Polsce, vol. VII: Województwo opolskie, z. 4: powiat kluczborski, ed. T. Chrzanowski and M. Kornecki, Warsaw 1960, pp. 20-21.
• Record sheet of monuments of architecture and construction. Kościół poewangelicki, ob. katolicki, fil. pw. Najświętszej Marii Panny Królowej Polski, compiled by J. Skarbek, 1999.