Churches & monasteries

Church of the Saviour in Tarnowskie Góry

The Church of the Saviour in Tarnowskie Góry stands on the market square and is one of the town’s key Protestant heritage sites. The Evangelical parish resumed its activity here after 1742, and the present church was built in 1780 as a Baroque house of prayer. Between 1898 and 1900 it was rebuilt to a design by Adolf Seiffhart in the Romanesque Revival style.

From Baroque to Romanesque Revival

The building preserves several stages of its history: a clock tower, Romanesque Revival risalit, triangular gable and a slender silhouette facing the square. Inside are galleries typical of Protestant churches, a pulpit altar, font and stained glass. It shows how a modest house of prayer grew with the mining town of Tarnowskie Góry.

Memorials and Carl Wernicke

Notice the black-marble epitaph of Georg von Wirsbie from 1672 and the patronal pew of the Donnersmarck family with its distinctive doubled D. In 2008 a plaque was installed recalling that Carl Wernicke, later a German neurologist and psychiatrist, was baptised in this church.

Practical information

The church remains an active place of worship and hosts services and organ concerts. For an interior visit or guided tour, arrange access with the parish or the Tarnowskie Góry Museum, which offers guided tours of the Church of the Saviour by prior reservation. Combine it with the market square, museum and Historic Silver Mine.