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The Church of SS. Peter and Paul in Żyrzyn

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The Church of SS. Peter and Paul in Żyrzyn is a beautiful neo-Classical building in the shape of rotunda, designed by Christian Piotr Aigner, the court architect of the Czartoryski family. The history of the church origin is very interesting. The construction workers managed to build not only the foundations but also the walls of the church up to 5 metres tall in the course of 1803. However, the realization of the impressive architectural design by Aigner was interrupted due to lack of funds for the period of as many as 35 years. A story has been preserved among the county residents that decades later the unprotected walls were covered with birch trees, which the local residents used for making the shafts to the one-horse carts previously used in the countryside. It was only in the years 1839–48 that Adam Wessel, the new owner of the Żyrzyn estate, completed the church construction with the assistance of architect Karol Kremer, who introduced small changed to the original design. In the course of the subsequent decades, the church was finished off, renovated, plastered and painted. The roof with the dome, spreading above the nave, is topped with a turret crowned with a cross. The fronton is ornamented by four columns.

 

The interior of the church is covered with a beautiful polychrome. The three stained-glass windows, placed in the large window openings, founded by Stanisław and Zofia Wessel in 1912, are an impressive element of the interior design. On the left-hand side, you can see St. Stanislaus and on the right-hand side, St. Sophia the Martyr with Daughters with St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome in the background. The smaller stained-glass window above the high altar represents St. Joseph. The church also features marble epitaphs and plaques dedicated to the memory of church clerk presenters with their portraits.

 

The brick bell tower, dating from 1869 and incorporated in the fence, is located next to the gate in the close vicinity of the church. The fence itself dating from 1850 is worth noting, as it features four small shrines. An interesting neo-Gothic grave chapel of the Wessel family dating from 1853 is located nearby. The members of the family are buried in the crypt beneath.

 

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