Churches and monasteries
Baroque brick church from 1722-1729 with the founder Kotuliński's coat of arms above the entrance
Churches and monasteries
a brick church on a triangular plan with three towers, designed by Stanisław Niemczyk
Churches and monasteries
brick church from 1882-1890 with an organ from 1963 and a stained-glass window above the entrance
Churches and monasteries
Functionalist brick church of 1939 with a tower and a transept
Churches and monasteries
Lutheran chapel from 1911, built by a congregation of railway and industrial workers
Churches in Czechowice-Dziedzice: the Baroque Church of St Catherine, a triangular church with three towers and Lutheran heritage.
Czechowice-Dziedzice is a railway and industrial town, and its churches show several eras at once: Baroque of the eighteenth century, brick buildings of the late nineteenth century, functionalism and architecture of the 1990s.
The Church of St Catherine at Kopernika 42 is a Baroque brick church of 1722-1729 on a Latin-cross plan. The project was set in motion by the priest Walenty Martius and paid for mainly by the estate owner Franciszek Karol Kotuliński. Above the entrance is a semicircular pediment with the Kotuliński coat-of-arms cartouche and the date 1729. The tower was destroyed and rebuilt after the Second World War.
The Church of Our Lady Help of Christians at Legionów 57 stands in the Dziedzice estate. It was raised in 1882-1890 and consecrated in June 1890 by Bishop Franciszek Śniegoń of Cieszyn. An independent parish was set up in 1899, and between the wars the church was enlarged to its present size. The organ dates from 1963.
Finished just before the outbreak of war was the Church of Our Lady, Queen of Poland, a brick functionalist building put up in 1938-1939 under Father Jan Nepomucen Barabasz. It was blessed in May 1945, the parish was established in 1958, and the consecration took place in 1970.
A separate community is represented by the Lutheran chapel, blessed on 17 December 1911. The congregation was formed by German-speaking workers who came with railway construction and industry at the end of the nineteenth century. The first service was held in 1896 as a branch of the Bielsko parish, and work on its own chapel began in 1910 on land donated by Leon Zipser.
The Church of Jesus Christ the Redeemer is the youngest church here: building took five years, from 1995 to 1999, and the concept was by Stanisław Niemczyk. The body rests on a triangular plan with three towers, and its brick walls form a pattern. The year 1999 brought it the Grand Prix in the Architecture of the Year competition. It replaced the earlier parish church, fitted out in a joinery of 1929, which had become too small.
To get to know the town better, see the overview of the attractions of Czechowice-Dziedzice. Compare them with sacred buildings elsewhere in the churches and monasteries of Silesia.
The Church of Jesus Christ the Redeemer, built in 1995-1999. It has three towers, brick walls and the Architecture of the Year Grand Prix of 1999.
The Church of St Catherine at Kopernika 42, built in 1722-1729 on a Latin-cross plan.
The congregation was formed by German-speaking workers who arrived with railway construction and industry. The chapel was blessed in 1911.
The Church of Our Lady, Queen of Poland, built of brick in 1938-1939.
