Churches and monasteries
brick Neo-Gothic church of 1911 with a 40-metre tower by the market square
Churches and monasteries
church built entirely by parishioners as voluntary work in 1948-1950
Churches and monasteries
Neo-Baroque church from 1929, built on the site of the medieval church of the village of Radlin
Churches and monasteries
church from the 1980s with relics of St Herbert and a three-metre sculpture of the patron in the chancel
Churches and monasteries
church from 1949-1952 on the site of a 17th-century wooden church, Jedłownik parish
Churches and monasteries
post-war church on a hill with 22 steps from ulica Paderewskiego and a cross-shaped nave
a church from the 1960s in Wilchwy with a figure of St Barbara from the lamp room of the 1 Maja mine
Churches and monasteries
a parish church in the 1 Maja estate, consecrated in 2010, with a bell tower from 2020
Churches and monasteries
a 14th-century Gothic church and a Baroque Franciscan monastery, Evangelical since 1830
Churches and monasteries in Wodzisław Śląski: a Gothic Franciscan complex, a neo-Gothic church by the square and twentieth-century district churches.
Nine churches show how the town and its districts grew from the Middle Ages to the 1990s. The older ones stand by the market square, the younger ones in Wilchwy, Kokoszyce, Zawada and Radlin II.
In the medieval core, which holds the two oldest places of worship. By the square rises the Church of the Assumption, and a few steps away on Minorytów Street stands the former Franciscan monastery.
The parish church is brick and neo-Gothic, raised in 1909-1911 under a forty-metre tower; earlier churches stood here from the town's charter. The monastery has a fourteenth-century Gothic church and seventeenth-century Baroque buildings. The Franciscans arrived in the year of the charter, and their convent features in the article on the palace, the Minorites and the square. The monastery interior is not open to visitors: a court has its seat there, and the church is used by Lutherans.
The building stories are the most interesting part. In Kokoszyce the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was raised in 1948-1950 by parishioners without pay, from bricks brought from a brickworks. Equally post-war is the church in Jedłownik (1949-1952), which took the place of a wooden church from the early seventeenth century. On the hill in Zawada you can see the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross from afar: its naves form a cross, and steps lead up to the gate from Paderewskiego Street.
The Church of St Mary Magdalene in Radlin II has an older tradition: the present neo-Baroque building was finished in 1929, and the village was founded around 1300.
In Wilchwy the Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa from the late 1960s preserves mementos of the 1 Maja mine, and on the local estate the Church of St Lawrence has been growing since 2010 from a makeshift chapel. The Church of St Herbert on Radlińska Street took longer: the state gave permission in 1980 and the consecration came in 1990. Inside stands a three-metre sculpture of the patron.
Every other site in town is gathered under things to do in Wodzisław Śląski, while atmospheric places in Wodzisław Śląski add the mood of the town. Insurgent monuments across the region are gathered in the article on monuments to the insurgents and Korfanty, and similar churches are listed under churches and monasteries in Silesia.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a neo-Gothic building with a forty-metre tower.
No. The monastery building houses a court today, and the Gothic church serves Lutherans.
The Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Kokoszyce, in 1948-1950.
In the Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Wilchwy.
