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The Wooden Church of St George in Gliwice-Ostropa
One of the many interesting wooden churches of Silesia is located in Ostropa, a district of Gliwice. The church is situated a few miles west of the city, on the Wooden Architecture Trail of the Silesia province. It is difficult to determine the exact date of the construction of the first building on the site of the present church. It was mentioned as early as 1340, but we know that the building was burned down during the Hussite Wars. In the seventeenth century, it was replaced by a new shrine.
Location
street Nauczycielska 1
44-100 Gliwice
Commune: Gliwice
Tourist region: Upper Silesian Agglomeration, Silesia
Location: in the city/town
Contact data
: www.ostropa.pl/parafia
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: churches, architectural monuments, wooden architecture, sacred monuments, history sources
Prices & amenities
: admission free
Availability
: whole year
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The nature reserve "Las Dąbrowa" is similar to a
natural forest complex. It is located on the border
of Gliwice and Sosnicowice. The reserve was
established in 2008. It covers almost 77 hectares.
It also has an over two hundred hectare buffer
zone. The reserve protects a scenic landscape of
the area, but mainly oak-hornbeam and riparian
forests with many rare species of animals and
plants.
The Central Cemetery at Kozielska Street in Gliwice is an
interesting example of modern urban necropolis, which is
located in a park. The cemetery was established in the
1920s in response to the demand of the growing city on the
Kłodnica river. It has an oval layout, with a symmetrical
arrangement of plots and alleys. Two gates lead to the
cemetery, and in its central part there is a monumental
funeral home.
The wooden church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary located on the Starokozielski Cemetery in Gliwice was originally erected in Zębowice near Olesno. Itserved the local faithful from the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the last century. Then, it was carried over to Gliwice. It is archaic wooden structure, with an added tower, was crowned with a helmet and a lantern. The interior, decorated in the Baroque style, dates from the eighteenth century.
The loft in the granary in Gliwice is another successful
example of the revitalization of former industrial
buildings in Silesia. The project of the adaptation was
created at the “Medusa Group” designing studio from
Bytom, also known for the “Bolko” loft building in that
city. There are luxurious apartments and utility rooms in
the nineteenth-century Gliwice granary. The project was
soon appreciated. It already received the
“Superjednostka (Super Unit)” award in 2010 and secured
its place in the prestigious catalog of "101 most
interesting Polish buildings of the decade."
Smolnica, now lying in the district of Gliwice, in the commune of Sośnicowice, as its name suggests (Smoleń means “pitch” in Polish) was a village traditionally inhabited by charcoal and pitch burners. The first mention of the village dates back to the thirteenth century. In the second half of the fourteenth century, a parish was established in the village. We do not know when the first church was erected in Smolnica, or where it was located. The present church of Saint Bartholomew was founded as a Lutheran church at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
The church of Saint Archangel Michael in Żernica the best preserved wooden churches in Upper Silesia. According to recent studies, it was built in 1661, and the tower probably already in 1518. The recently uncovered Baroque wall paintings, created shortly after the construction of the church, are of great value. They were completed in the first half of the eighteenth century. The building is a log cabin construction. The columnar tower was covered with a pyramidal dome.
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Accommodation
The hotel is situated on the border of Gliwice and Sosnicowice, Cysterski National Park, just 500 meters from the A4 motorway exit.
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