A three-aisled Neo-Romanesque basilica from 1904-1907, designed by Joseph Schmitz, with a clock tower 51 m high.
The Neo-Romanesque Basilica of St Joseph on ulica Łagiewnicka is one of the largest churches in Chorzów. It was built in 1904-1907 to a design by Joseph Schmitz of Nuremberg, and since 2009 it has been entered in the heritage register.
The initiator was Father Paweł Łukaszczyk, parish priest of the parish of St Barbara in Królewska Huta, who died in 1905. The foundation stone was laid on 16 October 1904. The money came from, among others, the Królewska Huta ironworks, Cardinal Georg Kopp, the Król mine and parishioners' contributions; the rest was borrowed. The new church was blessed on 18 November 1907, and the consecration was carried out on 14 April 1915 by the bishop of Wrocław, Adolf Bertram. The parish was canonically established in 1913.
It is a three-aisled brick basilica on a Latin cross plan, 72 m long and 28 m wide. The main nave is 16 m high inside. The clock tower forms a projecting bay of the façade and reaches 51 m. The portal is decorated with a sculpture of St Joseph in the pediment and bas-reliefs of St Peter and St Paul, and the apse is supported by decorative flying buttresses with a colonnade under the roof.
The retable of the high altar is decorated with gilded sculptures showing the betrothal and death of St Joseph, made to a design by Schmitz. On the rood beam stands a Crucifixion scene, and on the pillars of the nave figures of saints, including St Andrew Bobola and St Francis of Assisi. The ceiling is coffered with gilded ornaments, and on the gallery stands an organ from 1907. Beneath the church is a crypt.
In the area lies the Teatr Rozrywki.
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