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Olesnica Castle

Renaissance building erected in place of a Gothic fortress of the thirteenth century in Olesnica.Head Olesnica princes to the nineteenth century.Castle defense Olesnicki was mentioned before the year 1238.The first record of the castle dates from 1292.Further expansion and remodeling made him a modern Renaissance residence at that time the fortifications.The oldest surviving part of the old Gothic building is the tower from the late thirteenth century, rebuilt and decorated with elements of graffiti and topped with a cupola in later years.Visible in the upper floor gallery with a stone balustrade shows early Gothic castle during the construction phase.In parallel with the tower was built the lower part of the existing west wing of the castle, where he was then dwelling house.

Church of St. Mary in Olesnica

It belongs to the deanery of Wroclaw Wroclaw-Szczecin Diocese of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.Olesnicka church is the former church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St.George.The property is located at Lausitz.The temple was founded with the merger of two churches.Elder a member of the Augustinian Order who is also part of the parish church, was built around 1307 at St George's Hospital.The second was built in 1380 with the foundation for Benedictine Konrad I imported from the Czech Republic.In the year 1505 with the command of Bishop John Turzo churches combined.The building burned in a fire in the year 1945.It was rebuilt for the Orthodox parish.

St. Peter's Basilica in Olesnica

is a parish church called the Castle there was probably already in the twelfth century, mentioned in documents Wroclaw bishopric of the year 1189.Other sources speak of the local parish priest Thomas parish from the year 1230 who was a canon of the Chapter of Wroclaw.In the second half of the fourteenth century the church was rebuilt.In the year 1469 was increased three-aisled basilica became a closed polygonal apse.In the nave done a stellar vault in the side - cross.At the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was built from the north porch and three kaplice.W year 1620 the church tower superstructure and covered with a helmet.

City Hall in Olesnica

the first town hall was built probably in the year 1410, brick, two-wing, two-story tower.Repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt.in the year 1826 has been the reconstruction of a classical look and in 1892 it merged with a neighboring building.After the war it was rebuilt in the years 1960 - 1964.Today the building houses the City in August.

Column Gold Godow

column erected in 1791, the in Olesnica in memory of mating pairs of golden prince - Fr.Krystian Charles and Mary Sophia zu Solms-Laubach.

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