Brixius Church (Bryksy)

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Pilgrimage Church of St. Brixen
View of the interior of the church

The scrap wood church of St. Brixius is a Roman Catholic field and pilgrimage church from the 17th century on a hill near the village of Gościęcin (Kostenthal) . It is dedicated to St. Brixius of Tours (370–444).

The pilgrimage site of St. Brixen ( Bryksy in Polish ) also includes two chapels and a spring, the St. Brixius spring and the St. Brixius Born. St. Brixius is the central figure of the coat of arms of today's Gmina Pawłowiczki .

history

The wooden church was built on the site of a miraculous spring west of the village of Kostenthal on the road to Koske and was first mentioned in a document in 1594. The current building was built in 1661 as a foundation by the Kostenthal mayor Martin Wolff and his wife Martha. The church was laid out on a cross-shaped floor plan with a small roof turret. In 1674 the building was consecrated by the auxiliary bishop of Breslau, Karl Franz Neander von Petersheide . The interior of the church is spanned by a wooden barrel vault and contains a uniform baroque interior from the time it was built.

During the secularization in Prussia, the church had to make its consecration gifts . In 1880 the church was extensively renovated and new paintings were added at the end of the 19th century. The altar panel of the south side altar shows the title saint of the church. The high altar picture of the Trinity dates back to 1689. On April 22, 1954, the Brixius Church was added to the monument register.

In the octagonal fountain house from 1880 there is a painting of St. Brictius from the 17th century.

literature

  • Georg Hyckel : St. Brixen the place of pilgrimage near Kostenthal, Cosel district . Upper Silesian Company Printing House, Ratibor 1924.
  • Georg Hyckel: 300 years of St. Brixen. The place of pilgrimage near Kostenthal, Cosel district . In: Coseler Heimblatt 1960.

Web links

Commons : St. Brixius (Gościęcin)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland: Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich, Berlin 2005.
  2. ↑ Cf. diecezja.opole.pl; down. on February 11, 2009

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 21.9 "  N , 17 ° 58 ′ 27.3"  E