Churches and monasteries
a brick church from 1532 with a triangular stained-glass window on the front wall
Churches and monasteries
Neo-Gothic church from 1898-1903 of limestone and brick in Szczakowa, with a Romantic organ
Churches and monasteries
church from the 1930s that absorbed a chapel consecrated in 1691
Churches and monasteries
church of 1983-1997 with an image crowned by John Paul II, patron of the city
Churches and monasteries
parish church designed by Ludwik Wojtyczko, consecrated in 1946
Churches and monasteries
church from 1931-1932 built through the efforts of parishioners, with a builder from Mysłowice
Churches and monasteries
a single-nave brick church with a tower, built in 1930-1938 to a design by a Kraków architect
a church in the villa of a cement works director from 1909, built in the Swiss style
Churches in Jaworzno: the collegiate church in the centre, a shrine on Osiedle Stałe, a neo-Gothic church in Szczakowa and a church in a villa.
Eight churches spread across the districts tell of a town of miners and cement works. The oldest stands in the centre, the others in Szczakowa, Jeleń, Ciężkowice, Byczyna, Dąbrowa Narodowa, Pieczyska and Osiedle Stałe.
Start with the Collegiate Church of St Adalbert and St Catherine on Plac Świętego Jana. Its masonry parish church dates to 1532, and the building has changed shape many times, with a neoclassical makeover in 1833 and the latest works in the 1990s. A collegiate chapter has sat here since 1997. A big stained-glass window fills the front wall.
In Jeleń the neo-Baroque Church of the Holy Cross was raised in the 1930s around a brick chapel of 1691, so a young building hides a much older core. In Szczakowa the Church of St Elizabeth of Hungary of 1898-1903 is neo-Gothic, built of local limestone and brick; it appears in the register of monuments. For the district's industrial background, read Szczakowa and the town of power plants.
In Pieczyska the Church of St Brother Albert occupies a villa from 1909 in the Swiss manner, once the residence of the man who ran the cement works.
Two brick churches come from the 1930s: the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Byczyna (1930-1938) and the Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Dąbrowa Narodowa (1931-1932). In Ciężkowice the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help was consecrated in 1946, and its origins go back to an old chapel of St Rosalia.
The youngest is the church on Osiedle Stałe, built in 1983-1997. It holds a picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Help that John Paul II crowned in 1999.
After the churches, step into the atmospheric places of Jaworzno. The page of things to do in Jaworzno gives the full picture, and similar churches across the region are described in churches and monasteries in Silesia. Green areas in and around town are covered in the article on nature reserves in the agglomeration's towns.
In the town centre, on Plac Świętego Jana.
The Church of St Elizabeth of Hungary in Szczakowa, built in 1898-1903.
The Church of St Brother Albert in Pieczyska.
On Osiedle Stałe, in the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help with its crowned picture.
