Churches and monasteries
Baroque church with the crypt of the Promnitz family, right beside Pszczyna Castle
Churches and monasteries
neo-Baroque Lutheran church by the Market Square, rebuilt after the fire of 1905
Churches and monasteries
an 18th-century pillar shrine with a legend about the pursuit of Henry of Valois
Churches and monasteries in Pszczyna include All Saints Church with the Promnitz crypt, the Lutheran church by the square and a shrine in the park.
Pszczyna has Catholic and Lutheran churches close to one another, in the centre and in the castle park. Walking from church to church takes little time, so it makes a good solo afternoon.
All Saints Church at plac Księdza Prałata Józefa Kuczery 2 is a few dozen metres from the castle. Records name it from 1326, but the present building comes from a reconstruction after the great fire of 1748, completed in 1754. A crypt below holds thirteen Promnitz burials. Earlier, after the blaze of 1622, Jerzy Walenty Meyer of Moravian Ostrava had restored it. The castle next door features in the article on Destailleur's rebuild.
The facade of the Lutheran church opens onto the main square, at Rynek 1. The congregation sought a church from 1709, the walls rose in 1743-1746, and a fire in 1905 forced a neo-Baroque rebuild. On the far side of the park, in its south-west corner by Wojska Polskiego and Żorska, stands the "Thy Will Be Done" shrine, a plastered pillar shrine with a tiled roof. A legend of a chase after Henry of Valois is linked to it. Walking through the park and the open-air museum is described in a Pszczyna stroll article. For the rest of the town go to things to do in Pszczyna, and for sacred buildings across the voivodeship to churches and monasteries in Silesia.
Thirteen Promnitz burials lie there, the lords of Pszczyna of the time.
A fire in 1905 led to a neo-Baroque reconstruction. The earlier church dates from the 1740s.
