Churches and monasteries
late Baroque church from 1762 in Skoczów, with relics of St John Sarkander and an organ by Rieger
Churches and monasteries
former hospital chapel with a barrel vault and a polychrome about John Sarkander
Churches and monasteries
brick Lutheran church from 1865 on Wilamowice Hill, designed by a Viennese architect
Historic sites
late Baroque town hall from 1797 with the coats of arms of the Duke of Cieszyn on the façade
Architecture in Skoczów means a late Baroque town hall on the square, the Peter and Paul church, the Evangelical Trinity church and a Gothic hospital chapel.
Skoczów lies in Cieszyn Silesia. The four buildings stand in the town centre, and the churches represent both Catholic and Evangelical traditions.
The Town Hall in Skoczów of 1797, late Baroque, with a tower and coats of arms on the facade, stands on the western side of the Market Square; it was rebuilt in 1934. The history of the square is told in the article Skoczów: Jonasz na rynku, pożar 1756 roku i miasto murowane. The Church of Saints Peter and Paul of 1762 is a late Baroque three-aisled hall church with galleries, listed as a monument in 1960.
The Church of the Holy Trinity is an Evangelical-Augsburg brick church of 1863-1865 on Wilamowice Hill, to a design by Horky, an architect from Vienna. The Church of the Finding of the Holy Cross, nicknamed the little hospital, developed from a fourteenth-century chapel of the town hospital; it has a wall painting about St John Sarkander and a stone font.
With St John Sarkander. The present building is the fifth church on the site.
The Viennese architect Horky. The Architecture section lists more buildings, and Skoczów has a page of its own: Skoczów.
