Assumption of Holy Mary Church, Haczów

Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Haczowie
Assumption of Holy Mary Church in Haczów
Basic information
Location Poland Haczów, Poland
Affiliation Roman Catholicism
Status active church
Architectural description
Architectural type Gothic
Completed after 1459
Official name: Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland
Type Cultural
Criteria iii, iv
Designated 2003 (27th session)
Reference no. 1053
State Party  Poland
Region Europe

Assumption of Holy Mary Church in Haczów - a Gothic, wooden church located in the village of Haczów from the fifteenth-century, which together with different churches is designated as part of the UNESCO Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland.[1]

The church in Haczów is the largest wooden Gothic church in Europe, and simultaneously one of the oldest wooden framework churches in Poland.[2]

History

The wooden church in Haczów was built out of a wooden framework, raised after 1459, and expanded in 1624 (with the building of the 25 metre starling tower, built away from the church, topped out with a cupola, pl:soboty (low wooden arcade around the church supported by pillars), the creation of windows in the nave, and the building of an earth bulwark); between 1784 and 1789 (expansion of the sacristy, building of new soboty). The interior of the church is decorated with a polychrome from 1494 (most likely the oldest polychrome of its type in Europe, representing the oldest collection of representative paintings in Poland), and later expanded in 1864.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Main Page". Parafia Haczów. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Virtual Sightseeing". Radosław Sobik. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Drewniany kościół Św. Doroty w Trzcinicy. ISBN 9788393747504.

Coordinates: 49°40′13″N 21°53′24″E / 49.6703°N 21.89°E / 49.6703; 21.89

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