Church of Our Lady of Czachów (Czachów)

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Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa

The Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa is a Gothic stone building in Czachów in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. Until 1945 it was the Protestant parish church of Zachow in the Königsberg district in the Neumark .

history

The church was probably built in the 13th century. The first mention of a pastor is from 1336. In 1535 the community became Protestant like the rest of Neumark. In 1736 the church was redesigned. Further renovations took place in 1837.

Since 1945 the parish has belonged to the Roman Catholic Church in Poland.

Architecture and equipment

The church building is a single-nave hall building with a short retracted choir and a semicircular apse. A wooden tower is placed on the west side.

The interior is simply furnished without an altarpiece or pulpit. Numerous small colored drawings on the walls from around the 14th century depict not only geometric figures but also people who are simply naive and whose identity and reference are unknown.

An almost empty organ front on the west gallery from the 18th century is attributed to the organ builder Joachim Wagner . In 1837 Carl August Buchholz built a new organ there. In 1945 all metal pipes were stolen.

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