Churches and monasteries
a parish church from 1887, extended after the war with a side aisle and a chapel
Churches and monasteries
Neo-Romanesque Evangelical church from 1780 by the Tarnowskie Góry Market Square
Churches and monasteries
neo-Gothic church of white stone and red brick with a 19th-century organ
Churches and monasteries
three-nave hall church from 1899-1902 funded by Henckel von Donnersmarck
Churches and monasteries
17th-century brick cemetery church, a former Evangelical church beyond the Gliwice Gate
Churches and monasteries
a Camillian church from 1907 in Osada Jana, with a neo-Gothic Rieger organ
Churches and monasteries
the oldest church in Tarnowskie Góry, from the 15th century, with Baroque frescoes from 1707 and a cemetery
Churches and monasteries
a Neo-Romanesque basilica of 1911 with a 42-metre tower
Churches and monasteries
a small dolomite chapel from the late 18th century with a roof turret and a painting of St John of Nepomuk
Churches and monasteries
a Renaissance church rebuilt in the Neo-Romanesque style, with a clock from 1586
Churches and monasteries
an octagonal chapel from the mid-18th century with a shingled roof and a folk altar with a Pietà
Churches and monasteries in Tarnowskie Góry: a Gothic church in Stare Tarnowice, a Lutheran church by the Market Square and chapels in the districts.
The town counts about eleven churches and chapels, dating from the end of the 14th century up to the early 20th. Their stories are woven into the history of the mining town: some were raised by Protestants, others funded by Count Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck. The visit is easiest to split by district.
The oldest is the church of St Martin in Stare Tarnowice, built in the late 14th or early 15th century. Another early masonry church in the centre is the one dedicated to the apostles Peter and Paul, while St Anne's began as a Protestant place of worship.
The Church of St Martin Complex stands on Niedziałkowskiego Street behind the wall of an old cemetery, next to the small mound castle of the village's former owners. It is a Gothic-Baroque building of limestone with frescoes from 1707. Today it serves as a branch church and cemetery chapel. The Church of Saints Peter and Paul on Gliwicka Street has a Renaissance core, a neo-Romanesque remodelling, a clock from 1586 and an organ of forty-three stops.
The Church of St Anne at Gliwicka 35a went up in 1617-1619 as a Lutheran church and has been Catholic since 1653. It stands beyond the former town walls, on a Protestant cemetery by the Wrocław Gate, later called the Gliwice Gate.
A Lutheran church stands by the Market Square, and two churches funded by the Donnersmarcks lie in the districts: a neo-Gothic one in Repty Śląskie and the new church of St Martin. You can see the first on a walk round the centre; the other two need a short trip.
The Church of the Saviour at Rynek 9 is a brick building of the Evangelical-Augsburg parish from 1780, remodelled in 1900 in the neo-Romanesque style. It has one tower and a small bell turret, and it is a listed monument. An article about the Tarnowskie Góry Market Square connects it with the square and the mining school.
The Church of St Nicholas in Repty Śląskie, of 1867-1871, stands out for its mass of white stone and red brick, and Count Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck funded it. Ludwig Schneider designed the New Church of St Martin in Stare Tarnowice, built in 1899-1902, and the same count paid the costs. Its style mixes neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic features.
In Strzybnica, Bobrowniki Śląskie and Osada Jana you will see five smaller and newer buildings: two chapels, two parish churches and a branch church of a monastic order. It is easiest to visit them within one district at a time.
Strzybnica has the church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Fátima, blessed in 1887 and enlarged in 1959-1960, and the chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows at Kombatantów 33. This octagonal masonry building from the mid-18th century has a shingle roof and a lantern with a Lorraine cross.
In Bobrowniki Śląskie two buildings differ in scale. The chapel on Główna Street is made of dolomite and is only 3.6 metres tall, while the church of the Transfiguration of 1910-1911 is a three-aisled basilica with a tower over 42 metres high. In Osada Jana you will find the church of St John the Baptist and St Camillus of 1906-1907, built together with the Camillians' medical institution, with a Rieger organ from 1930.
Beyond the churches, check the monuments of Tarnowskie Góry, its cemeteries and monuments and the industrial sites.
St Martin's church in Stare Tarnowice, built in the late 14th or early 15th century. It is Gothic-Baroque and has frescoes from 1707.
Yes, the Church of the Saviour at Rynek 9. It was built in 1780 and remodelled in the neo-Romanesque style in 1900.
The church of the Transfiguration in Bobrowniki Śląskie has a tower higher than 42 metres. It is a three-aisled basilica from 1910-1911.
The chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows stands in Strzybnica at Kombatantów 33. It dates from the mid-18th century, most probably from 1756.
