Churches and monasteries
Neo-Gothic church from 1888-1891 with a seventy-metre tower
Historic sites
a synagogue built in 1826 on Mieroszewskich Square, a parish hall with women's galleries since 1928
Historic sites
a brick synagogue from 1910-1911, today with an ornamental gable and a commercial function
Churches and monasteries
octagonal Baroque-Neoclassical church of limestone, around 1810
Churches and monasteries
a neo-Renaissance tomb chapel from 1858 with a dome, an altar with a Pietà and a marble slab
Churches and monasteries
a neo-Gothic tomb of an industrialist's family, today the burial place of the parish priests
Churches and monasteries
brick Evangelical church from 1875-1877 with a stained-glass window of Christ above the altar
Historic sites
Neo-Renaissance villa with 25 rooms, since 1922 the home of the Kuder family, today owned by the Jesuits
Churches and monasteries
the oldest church in Mysłowice, from the early 14th century, with endowments from the Salomon and Mieroszewski families
Architecture in Mysłowice: Neo-Gothic churches by Paul Jackisch, a Baroque church of the early 1300s, synagogues, tomb chapels and a villa.
Mysłowice has no single historic centre, but it has several compact groups of buildings. Two churches stand on Starokościelna Street, an Evangelical church and a villa on Powstańców Street, and two chapels in the old cemetery on Mikołowska Street.
Two churches stand side by side on Starokościelna Street. The Nativity of the Virgin Mary church is said to be the oldest place of worship in the town: its walls reach back to the 1300s, and the Baroque interior dates from 1740-1744. Next to it rises the brick Sacred Heart church, a Neo-Gothic work of 1888-1891 designed by Paul Jackisch, topped by a 70-metre tower.
The Holy Cross church on Świerczyny Street looks different: an eight-sided stone chapel from around 1810, with a dome crowned by a small bell turret.
Powstańców Street holds two buildings of the late 1800s. The Lutheran church serves a Lutheran congregation; Jackisch designed this Neo-Gothic body too (1875-1877), and a stained-glass window of 1927 hangs over the altar. At number 13 stands Kuder Villa, a single-storey Neo-Renaissance house of the 1870s, entered in the register of monuments, with 25 rooms over more than 450 square metres.
Two tomb chapels wait in the old parish cemetery, to be visited quietly. The chapel of Father Ludwik Markiefka, dated 1858, is octagonal and Neo-Renaissance. The Klaus family chapel of 1870 to 1871 represents the Neo-Gothic.
Both synagogues have a quite different use today than at the start. The synagogue on Mieroszewskich Square was raised in 1826. Since 1928 it has housed a Catholic People's House, and the wooden women's galleries survive inside.
In Brzezinka, a district of Mysłowice, stands a second building: the former synagogue of 1910 to 1911, of brick, with an ornamental gable. It changed hands in 1922 and now has a commercial user, so you look at it from the street.
The historical background of a town that once lay where three empires met is told in a text on the Three Emperors' Corner. A selection of buildings from the whole region is on the architecture page, and the full list for the town is under Mysłowice attractions.
On Starokościelna Street, where an older Baroque church stands beside a younger Neo-Gothic one. From there it is easy to reach the Holy Cross church on Świerczyny Street.
He designed two Neo-Gothic brick churches in town, one for Catholics and one for Lutherans.
No. The synagogue on Mieroszewskich Square is home to a Catholic People's House from 1928 onwards, and the one in Brzezinka has a commercial user.
In the old parish cemetery on Mikołowska Street. They are the chapels of Father Markiefka and of the Klaus family.
