A wooden parish church from 1755 in Wilcza, a registered monument on the Wooden Architecture Trail.
The Church of St Nicholas in Wilcza is a wooden church from 1755, entered in the heritage register. It stands in Pilchowice municipality and belongs to the Wooden Architecture Trail of the Silesian Voivodeship, in its Rybnik loop.
The present church is the third in the village and was built in 1755 on the initiative of Father Józef Wrana.
The first church was probably built around 1480 as a branch of the parish in Pilchowice and burned down during the Thirty Years' War. Another was put up in 1657, and in 1755 it was demolished and replaced with the present one. The builder was the carpenter Jakub Sedlaczek of Gliwice. Wilcza became an independent parish only in 1925, after being joined to Poland as a result of the plebiscite. The church was renovated, among other times, in 2007-2012.
The church has a log construction of oak, pine and spruce timber, and a sobota (wooden arcaded gallery) runs around it.
The chancel, with its three-sided end, and the nave have separate gable roofs, and a turret for the sanctus bell rises above the nave. The tower added on the west side ends in an overhanging belfry with a pyramidal helmet roof. The furnishings are Baroque: a 17th-century high altar with a painting of St Nicholas from the no longer existing church in Gorzyce, late Baroque side altars and an 18th-century pulpit. A votive painting of Our Lady of Frýdek from 1709 with an inscription in Moravian deserves attention.
Within the fence a few graves of priests and benefactors have survived from the former cemetery.
A modern Lourdes Grotto and a figure of the Passion of Christ from 1883 also stand here. The monument lies by hiking trails: the Gliwice Circular Trail and the Centenary of Tourism Trail.
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