Neo-Romanesque church with two towers 57 m high, modelled on Limburg Cathedral, in Bytom-Rozbark.
St Hyacinth's Church in Bytom-Rozbark is a Neo-Romanesque church of red brick and sandstone, with two towers 57 metres high. It stands on St Hyacinth's Hill, and its design was modelled on Limburg Cathedral. The building is entered in the heritage register.
The first chapel of St Hyacinth was built in 1875, after the great fire of the village of Rozbark. In time it proved too small, so at the beginning of the 20th century it was decided to build a new church. The old chapel was pulled down around 1911, and what remained of it was the bell of St Barbara. The parish was established in 1913, and the church was consecrated on 4 August 1915.
Construction took place in 1908-1911, and the designer was Max Giemsa of Katowice. The body, built of dressed sandstone blocks, is decorated with rich sculptural detail, and the windows and portals have rich surrounds. Two towers rise on either side of the east façade, and above the crossing stands an openwork ridge turret. The interior has three aisles with a transept, a wooden ceiling, plastered walls and three galleries. The high altar stands on the west side, so the church is oriented the opposite way to the usual. The two-storey building contains the Crypt of St Joseph in its lower part.
Those who worked on the furnishings included the sculptor Matthias Beule, Georg Schreiner of Regensburg (altar sculptures), the painter Otto Kowalewski of Katowice (wall paintings) and the firm Carl Busch of Wrocław (altars). In the upper church stands a 60-stop organ by Gebrüder Rieger of Krnov from 1926, and in the lower church a 16-stop organ by the same firm from 1934.
From the Rozbark district it is not far to the Silesian Opera building in Bytom, and a little further on lies the Franciszek Kachel City Park.
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