Churches & monasteries

Holy Trinity Wooden Church in Koszęcin

On Holy Trinity Street in Koszęcin near Lubliniec stands a wooden church of the Holy Trinity from 1724, built on the site of an earlier temple from 1568. The orientated timber building, raised in log construction on a stone-and-brick foundation, is surrounded by open soboty — the covered walkways typical of Silesian wooden churches.

The legend of three children

The history of this place reaches far back. According to tradition, the first little church stood by an oak where a miller’s daughter repeatedly saw three children asking for a temple to be built — they personified the Holy Trinity. The trunk of that oak still stands next to the presbytery, and in a small brick chapel by the church wall a miraculous spring, mentioned in old paintings, still flows.

Period fittings and traces of an older altar

The interior keeps mainly the fittings from the time of construction, though older elements survive. The main and side altars are adorned with figures from the triptych altar of the previous church — most of the other sculptures, after thefts, ended up in the Archdiocesan Museum in Katowice. Especially valuable are paintings from the 16th and 18th centuries; one of them depicts the legendary history of the place in eight panels.

In practice

The church lies on the Wooden Architecture Trail of the Silesian voivodeship, and a few kilometres further the same trail leads, among others, to the church in Sadów. You can see the interior after contacting the parish by phone — visiting hours are not fixed. The drive from Lubliniec takes a dozen or so minutes, with parking by the road.