Wilcza (Pilchowice)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Silesia | ||
| Powiat : | Gliwice | ||
| Gmina : | Pilchowice | ||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 11 ′ N , 18 ° 35 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 2068 (Jan. 2006) | ||
| Postal code : | 44-189 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 32 | ||
| License plate : | SGL | ||
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| Street : | Gliwice - Rybnik | ||
| Next international airport : | Katowice | ||
Wilcza is a Polish village in the Gmina Pilchowice of the Powiat Gliwicki in the Silesian Voivodeship halfway from Gliwice to Rybnik , both of which are about twelve kilometers away.
The village was first mentioned in a document in 1486, but originally consisted of the two villages Ober Wilcza and Nieder Wilcza.
Attractions
The scrap wood church St. Nikolaus goes back to a previous building from 1480. The current building was erected in the first half of the 18th century by the Gliwice carpenter Jakob Siedlaczek. The outer walls of the scrap wood church are made of beams and, like the roof, covered with shingles. In addition, the nave is crowned by a roof turret with an onion hood. On the west side of the church is the large front tower with a needle helmet. In the interior, in addition to the main altar with an altar sheet of the title saint from the 17th century, there is also an organ and side altars from the late Baroque (18th century) as well as the picture of Our Lady of Frydek from 1709.
Web links
- Description of the Wilcza wooden church ( Memento from June 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )