Churches and monasteries
eclectic church of 1889 on the market square in Rajcza, shrine of Our Lady of Casimir
Historic sites
a neo-Renaissance Lubomirski palace with a park and six natural monuments
Cemeteries and monuments
a cemetery from the mid-19th century with a war plot and cast-iron crosses
Architecture in Rajcza includes an 1886-1889 church on the square, a nineteenth-century palace complex and a historic cemetery in the Żywiec Beskids.
Rajcza lies on the Soła river in the Żywiec Beskids. The three buildings below differ in age and purpose.
Above the market square rises the Church of St Lawrence and St Casimir the Prince, a three-aisled brick building of 1886-1889. In 1997 it became a local Marian shrine and now guards a painting of the Madonna with a Braid; only four such images exist in the Żywiec region. The wooden predecessor, dating from 1674, was shut in 1884.
The palace complex on Ujsolska Street is the former Lubomirski palace with a park. It grew out of a residence of about 1809, and in 1895-1896 Władysław Lubomirski rebuilt it in Neo-Renaissance style. Today it houses a care and treatment facility, so it is not open to visitors.
Dating from the mid-nineteenth century, the Roman Catholic cemetery is on the register of monuments. It has a section for 261 soldiers of the First World War and cast-iron crosses by Hans Mayr. Similar places are listed under architecture, and the Rajcza overview adds the rest of the town.
The church on the square has been a local Marian shrine since 1997, with a painting of the Madonna with a Braid.
The palace now houses a care and treatment facility, so at most it can be viewed from outside.
