The story
A log-built Gothic church inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2003 as one of six components of "Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland" (ref. 1053rev), alongside Binarowa, Blizne, Dębno, Lipnica Murowana and Sękowa. It is described as the largest Gothic wooden church in Europe and the oldest log-construction church in Poland. The famous 1388 date refers to the founding of the parish, not the building: dendrochronology dates the structure to around 1459, from fir felled in 1458–59, with ceiling boards from timber felled about 1472 — pointing to Casimir IV Jagiellon as the likely patron. Inside is a figurative polychrome dated 1494, probably the oldest of its kind in Europe, which lay hidden under later overpainting until conservators uncovered it in 1956. A Baroque tower was added in the 17th century. About 10 km north of Rymanów.
Everything that was here
- 1459–present · still open
Church of the Assumption and St Michael the Archangel, HaczówChurch
Europe's largest Gothic timber church — and the date carved into every guidebook is wrong.
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