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The Palace in Rybnik
The palace in Rybnik is also known as the Piast Castle, but since the times of the Piast dynasty it has undergone many changes. Although the first mention of the castle dates to 327, we know that it existed here as a wooden building in the first half of the thirteenth century, and it had probably been constructed in the twelfth century. The present form of the palace primarily resulted from the rebuilding in the eighteenth century, when it was given the late baroque and neoclassicist appearance.
Location
street Plac Kopernika 2
44-206 Rybnik
Commune: Rybnik
Tourist region: Upper Silesian Agglomeration
Location: in the city/town
General Information
: castles/palaces/manors
Prices & amenities
: admission free
Availability
: whole year
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The church located at 12 Miejska Street in
Rybnik is one of the parish churches of the
Katowice diocese of the Evangelical Church of
the Augsburg Confession. The origins of the
church erected on this site are associated with
an old wooden building used for storing and
drying fishing nets, which during the reign of
Frederick William, King of Prussia, was
reconstructed and adapted for the church. The
present building dates from the mid-nineteenth
century.
The Dr. Juliusz Roger Rybnik Hospital is
initiated by Dr. Juliusz Roger, who came to
Silesia in 1847 to assume the position of
court physician of Duke Victor I. Juliusz Roger,
one of the most remarkable characters of
Upper Silesia, was not only doctor, but also a
naturalist and folkloriSt The hospital facilities
that bear his name, and whose construction
he himself initiated, were put into use in
1869, four years after his death.
The market square in Rybnik has served as the
center of the city since the Middle Ages. Old,
wooden buildings around the square were
destroyed in many fires, so the houses that
surround the market square come mainly from the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Worthy of note
is the Classicist town hall, decorated with a clock
tower, from the 20s of the nineteenth century. It
now houses, inter alia, the Rybnik Museum. A late
Baroque statue of Saint John of Nepomuk stands on
the market square.
The building of the local government (starostwo) in Rybnik ranks among the most beautiful examples of historicizing styles of architecture in Upper Silesia, which alludes to the so-called Northern Renaissance, also known as the Dutch Renaissance. The building is said to have been built in 1887, and in the interwar period it was expanded. After the restoration work its façade adorned with an elegant gable and turret is particularly beautiful.
The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, built at the turn of
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is the
parish church, carrying on the tradition of the socalled old temple. Hill Church, which currently
remains the choir - performing the function of
the chapel of the academic day. Church, the call
is connected with eighteenth-century piety, was
also the site of the baptism of Fr. Blachnicki
Francis, the founder of the movement oasis,
heroic social activiSt
The church of the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin Mary is now the oldest church in Rybnik.
The shrine is dated to the, the fifteenth century.
Originally, the church was dedicated Our Lady
of Sorrows. The only remaining part of this
church is a presbytery, which was converted
into a mortuary chapel, while the rest was
demolished in the late eighteenth century. At
that time, a new church dedicated to the same
patron saint was erected. Currently, the old
sanctuary is used as a university church.
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