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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.25050#0379
a league from the city, by Bishop Iwo Odrow^z in 1223. The
Church of St Venceslaus was built in early Gothic forms before
1226; the unusual scheme of the eastern part (a presbytery
flanked by two pairs of chapels) and the spareness of interior
decoration are a consequence of Cistercian construction rules. In
the following centuries the church was remodelled a number of
times. The Late Baroque facade is the work of Franz Moser from
i779-i78o. The church retained its original thirteenth-century
character in its eastern section, where the brick walls are relieved
by an arcaded frieze, and partly in the interior. In the presbytery,
the transept and one of the chapels survive Renaissance murals by
Stanislaw Samostrzelnik, a monk in the abbey. The Late Gothic
high altarpiece dates from the beginning of the sixteenth century.
The most appealing parts of the monastery, which adjoins the
church from the south, are the fourteenth-century cloisters. Here,
too, and in the library, frescoes by Samostrzelnik are to be found,
notably the monumental Crucifixion of 1538. Valuable collections
of documents and books are kept in the monastery.
Opposite the monastery stands the parish Church of St Bar-
tolomew, one of the oldest surviving examples of Polish wooden
architecture, built in the second half of the fifteenth century. The
sumptuously carved wooden portal by Maciej M ij.cz k a bears the
date of 1466.
Church of St Venceslaus was built in early Gothic forms before
1226; the unusual scheme of the eastern part (a presbytery
flanked by two pairs of chapels) and the spareness of interior
decoration are a consequence of Cistercian construction rules. In
the following centuries the church was remodelled a number of
times. The Late Baroque facade is the work of Franz Moser from
i779-i78o. The church retained its original thirteenth-century
character in its eastern section, where the brick walls are relieved
by an arcaded frieze, and partly in the interior. In the presbytery,
the transept and one of the chapels survive Renaissance murals by
Stanislaw Samostrzelnik, a monk in the abbey. The Late Gothic
high altarpiece dates from the beginning of the sixteenth century.
The most appealing parts of the monastery, which adjoins the
church from the south, are the fourteenth-century cloisters. Here,
too, and in the library, frescoes by Samostrzelnik are to be found,
notably the monumental Crucifixion of 1538. Valuable collections
of documents and books are kept in the monastery.
Opposite the monastery stands the parish Church of St Bar-
tolomew, one of the oldest surviving examples of Polish wooden
architecture, built in the second half of the fifteenth century. The
sumptuously carved wooden portal by Maciej M ij.cz k a bears the
date of 1466.