Nikolaikirche (Bejsce)

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Nikolaikirche

The parish church of St. Nikolai is a listed church building in Bejsce , a village in the rural parish of the same name in the Powiat Kazimierski of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in Poland . Here you can find it in the center of the village. Immediately to the west of the sacred building are the Bejsce Park and Palace.

Building description and history

The church, which is surrounded by a cemetery , is a Gothic brick building from around 1400. In the middle of the nave there is a bell tower in the form of a roof turret , which dates from 1771. The nave was vaulted in the 19th century .

The church has a recessed choir with a ribbed vault. Gothic wall paintings can also be found here. There is also a ribbed vault in the sacristy of the church.

The entire inner west side of the church is shaped by the tomb of Elisabeth Firlej, the first wife of Nikolai Firlej, which dates from around 1580. The richly decorated tomb is made of sandstone , with individual elements made of marble. An alabaster altar can be found in a niche opposite this tomb. This dates from the 16th century .

The church is equipped with an alabaster baptismal font from the 16th century. There is also a box with the heart of Marcin Badeni (1751–1824), a Polish statesman of the Duchy of Warsaw , who once owned the palace next to the church.

  • Gothic frescoes in the church choir

  • Alabaster font

  • View from the north

  • Tomb of Elisabeth Firlej

Firlej chapel

The Firlej chapel can be found on the south side of the church . It is a burial chapel that was built between 1593 and 1600. It is a foundation of the Krakow voivod Nikolai Firlej . The square domed building has an entrance hall that has been worked on a journeyman . The chapel was created by a workshop in Pińczów . The chapel is decorated with numerous contemporary stone carvings. The Sigismund Chapel in Kraków's Wawel served as a model for the building .

  • Exterior view of the Firlej Chapel

  • Interior view of the Firlej Chapel

  • Vaulted ceiling of the Firlej Chapel

  • Firlej chapel

Web links

Commons : Nikolaikirche Bejsce  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Monument database of the Polish Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship , accessed on September 1, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e Jerzy Z. Lozinski (ed.): Art monuments in Poland . Southeast Poland. Arkady-Verlag, Warsaw, Leipzig 1984, p. 387 (German edition).

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 26.5 ″  N , 20 ° 36 ′ 3.2 ″  E