Churches and monasteries
Neo-Romanesque church from 1930 with stained glass and a painting in the high altar
Churches and monasteries
church from 1936 in Jaśkowice, rebuilt after the roof fire of 2013
Churches and monasteries
Renaissance church from the late 16th century on a hill on ul. Na Górce
Churches and monasteries
a historicist brick church from 1878-1880 with an organ of 17 stops
Places with character
historic track crossing from 1884, displayed as a monument by the town hall
Churches and monasteries
parish church in Zgoń with frescoes by Adam Bunsch and altars by Jan Wałach
Churches and monasteries
a single-nave brick church consecrated in 1913 thanks to a donation from Katarzyna Hegenscheidt
Things to do in Orzesze: six churches from different eras starting in the sixteenth century and a technology monument made of a railway crossing.
Orzesze lies in the Upper Silesian conurbation, in the Mikołów county, and consists of several districts with their own parishes: Jaśkowice, Zgoń and Woszczyce. That is why almost all the sights are churches, from brick Neo-Romanesque ones to a sixteenth-century building. There is also an unusual railway monument.
The oldest is the Church of St Lawrence at Na Górce 6, a brick church of around 1590 founded by Wawrzyniec Trach and his wife Anna Maria née Frankenberg, then owners of Orzesze. It has a single nave, a tower and a small turret for the sanctus bell, and it is entered in the register of monuments.
In Woszczyce stands the Church of Saints Peter and Paul at Długosza 51, a brick church of 1878-1880 with Neo-Romanesque and Neo-Gothic elements; the royal builder Moebius designed it, and in 2007 it was entered in the register together with its surroundings inside the brick wall.
The full overview is on the page of churches and monasteries in Orzesze.
The former crossing of railway lines 159 and 169 is a preserved fragment of the place where line 169 from Orzesze Jaśkowice to Tychy and line 159 from Wodzisław Śląski to Orzesze once crossed at a right angle. After the tracks were dismantled in 2010, the fragment was set up as a technology monument on the square by the town hall.
Yes, but the churches lie in different districts, so plan your transfers between Jaśkowice, Zgoń and Woszczyce.
The churches serve worshippers. See the interiors outside services, and the facades at any time.
Various: from a sixteenth-century brick church through a Neo-Romanesque one of 1930 to brick churches of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A route from the railway monument to the churches in the centre. Ideas are collected on the page Orzesze solo.
