Assumption of Holy Mary Church, Haczów

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]

Assumption of Holy Mary Church in Haczów
Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Haczowie
Religion
AffiliationRoman Catholic
Statusactive church
Location
LocationPoland Haczów, Poland
Architecture
TypeGothic
Completedafter 1459
Official name: Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland
TypeCultural
Criteriaiii, iv
Designated2003 (27th session)
Reference no.1053
State Party Poland
RegionEurope

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.

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