16th century church dedicated to St. Anna in Niemys?owice
Niemys?owice, Prudnik Municipality
Church
The church was constructed in 1568. Initially it was a wooden church. On the site of the wooden building a Protestant church was built. The construction of the church was funded by Magdalena from Vrbno and it is Gothic and Renaissance in nature. The dominating structure from the outside is the western square tower. It has five storeys with clearly sectioned off-sets. On the upper storeys there are rectangular windows and portholes. The highest storey is divided by half columns and blind semicircular arches, surmounted by a straight attic with newer merlons and a brick octagonal roof. The whole is crowned with a ball and a cross. The building is directed towards the east, wrapped with buttresses with two offsets. The east top is triangular, divided by cornices into four zones, with low phials on flanks. The saddle roof is tiled. The church is rectangular, two-aisled. From the north it has a sacristy added with an organ gallery and from the south a porch also with an organ gallery. The church interior is two-aisled, three-bay, covered with six ribbed vaults, supported by two square pillars with cut out corners. The ribs made of formed brick with keystones, in corners fused as straight cantilevers. Under the tower there is a ribbed vault with a date of construction on the keystone (1568). Boxes in organ galleries open to the interior. Ogival windows with stained glass. From the side of the tower there are organ galleries on two storeys. The first description of the church and its interior comes from 1679.
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