A Neo-Gothic brick parish church in Lubomia from 1885 or 1886, successor to a wooden church of a parish with 14th-century origins.
St Mary Magdalene's Church in Lubomia is a Neo-Gothic brick parish church in the village of Lubomia in Wodzisław County. The present building went up in the second half of the 19th century, but the parish in the village is much older: the first mention of it dates from 1303.
In 1303 Nicholas, Bishop of Wrocław, consecrated a wooden church and a cemetery in Lubomia, at the initiative of Przemysław, Duke of Racibórz. That church lasted until 1516, when a new one was built or the old one thoroughly rebuilt. We know what it looked like because it was described in visitation reports from 1652, 1679 and 1688: a wooden building on a masonry foundation, about 18.5 metres long and 10.5 metres wide, with four windows and two doors. The interior was painted with polychrome decoration, and the high altar held a late Gothic triptych with the Holy Family.
The present church was built in 1885 or 1886 on the opposite side of the road. Construction was initiated by Father Antoni Kokorski, and the design was prepared by the Bytom master builder Paweł Jackisch. The building is of brick and Neo-Gothic. A tower with a pyramidal spire adjoins it on the south-east side, the nave is rectangular in plan, and the narrower chancel has a polygonal end. The interior is a single nave with Neo-Gothic furnishings.
Part of the furnishings survived from the old church: a Baroque crucifix, a Rococo monstrance, a chalice from the first half of the 18th century, pewter candlesticks and a Gothic bell from 1508 with an inscription in minuscule script.
From Lubomia it is close to the viewing tower in Pogrzebień, and a route can be rounded off with a visit to the Moravian Gate Arboretum. For a comparison with local sacred architecture, the Church of St Bartholomew the Apostle in Pogrzebień is a good choice.
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