Churches and monasteries
Pauline monastery with a Baroque altar, a figure of the Virgin Mary and a legend of a miraculous spring
Cemeteries and monuments
a kirkut founded in 1821, with more than 700 gravestones, the oldest from 1835
Historic sites
ruins of a 14th-century stone watchtower on a limestone rock, with a wall for climbers
Churches and monasteries
ruins of a Baroque limestone church on a hill with a view of the Warta valley
Historic sites
surviving synagogue from around 1870, now housing the municipal cultural centre
Churches and monasteries
a brick church from 1518-1522, rebuilt after a fire, with late Baroque altars
Churches and monasteries
a shingle-roofed hospital church from the late 17th century with three 18th-century altars
Architecture in Żarki: churches from the 16th century, the monastery in Leśniów, a synagogue from around 1870 and the ruins of a medieval watchtower.
Żarki is a town in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland where buildings of different eras and faiths stand close together. There are brick and stone churches, a Jewish synagogue in the Moorish-Neo-Romanesque style, and outside the centre a watchtower on a rock. Historic buildings across the region are described under architecture in Silesia, and everything inside Żarki is listed under things to do in Żarki.
The oldest in the centre is the brick church of Saints Simon and Jude Thaddeus from 1518-1522, and the smallest is the church of St Barbara from the late 17th century. Outside the town, in Leśniów, stands a Pauline monastery, and on Laskowiec hill the ruins of a Baroque church.
The church of Simon and Jude Thaddeus at ul. Leśniowska 1 was founded by Marcin Myszkowski. It was rebuilt after a fire and today has late Baroque altars and a Baroque tower helmet. The church of St Barbara at ul. Częstochowska 17 was probably built as a hospital church. It is a single-nave, oriented building with brick walls and a shingle roof, a Neoclassical high altar and Baroque side altars.
The ruins of St Stanislaus' Church, built of rough limestone before 1782, are listed as a monument and open to everyone, and the hill looks out over the Jurassic escarpment and the broad Warta valley. The sanctuary in Leśniów at ul. Leśniowska 99 is a monastery complex on the monuments register, with a church dated to the 16th century and a venerated figure of the Virgin Mary.
Two places: a synagogue and a cemetery. The synagogue from around 1870 is the only one of three former free-standing synagogues to survive, and the cemetery on ul. Polna is the only surviving one of three Jewish cemeteries.
The synagogue in Żarki stands at ul. Moniuszki 2, by the Leśniówka river. The masonry building in the Moorish-Neo-Romanesque style was built on the initiative of progressive Jews and today houses the Municipal and Communal Cultural Centre. The new Jewish cemetery was founded in 1821. It covers 1.5 hectares and over 700 gravestones survive. Visit it with respect, as any place of remembrance.
In Przewodziszowice, a former village, today part of Żarki in Myszków County. On a rocky outcrop stand the ruins of the Przewodziszowice watchtower, a stone defensive structure from the 14th century or the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, set in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The rock also has climbing routes.
The area is well complemented by a walk through the Jurassic nature reserves; the article Reserves of the northern Jura and surroundings suggests an order of visits.
Among those described the earliest is the brick church of Simon and Jude Thaddeus, built in 1518-1522. The sanctuary in Leśniów has a church dated to the 16th century.
The Municipal and Communal Cultural Centre. The building at ul. Moniuszki 2 is the only surviving synagogue of the town.
Yes, they are on the monuments register and open to everyone. They stand on Laskowiec hill.
On a limestone rock in Przewodziszowice, which belongs to Żarki and lies on the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Climbers use the rock today.
