Medieval traces of crime
District of Nysa
The route follows a trail of crosses made and erected by murderers at the scenes of crime .
The route leaves Nysa along Ujejskiego street and goes to J?drzychów (2.6 km). There are two penitential crosses in front of the information board. On one of them an instrument of crime is carved, presumably a dagger. The route continues along a road and turns right towards Grodków to reach Radzikowice (6.5 km). There is the next cross to be seen at the buttress of St. Bartholomew’s Church dating from the 14th century. (in the past there used to be two crosses here, however, it is not known in what circumstances the other one disappeared). During the Second World War the church was damaged with an artillery shell which accidentally exposed superb Renaissance polychromes. Having visited Radzikowice, tourists head for the villages of Korz?kwice (10km) and Fr?czków (11.2 km) respectively. In Fr?czków there is a palace surrounded by an English-style park with English oaks more than 300 years old. The palace was first mentioned in 1720. Now it constitutes a private property and is closed to the public. The hike continues to crossroads in Goszowice (13 km) and turns right to Pakos?awice, through Re?ska Wie? (15.5 km) with the baroque St. Margaret’s Church mentioned in 1335. There are two crosses to be found at the wall surrounding the church. The route moves on to one of the oldest villages in Silesia - Pakos?awice (18.2 km). There is the late-Renaissance St.Peter and St. Paul Church dating back to the first half of the 12th century, mentioned in 1221, with a grand penitential cross located by the entrance to the church, both worth seeing. On the left there is a belfry tower and a memorial to the fallen for Poland of both World Wars, funded in 1993 by former and present parishioners. The route leads along the Nysa–Opole road straight towards Prusinowice (21.5 km) with historical St. Michael the Archangel’s Church mentioned in 1302. Its present construction dates from 1885. At the inner side of the fence, near the entrance, a deformed penitential cross is located. Back from the turn the route leads to Z?otog?owice, once a very wealthy village, with the interesting St. Kathrine of Alexandria Church mentioned in 1302. The route of the excursion continues straight along the Nysa – ?ambinowice road (26.2 km) and reaches a site with two extremely interesting crosses – a modern, wooden one standing just beside a distorted and slightly overgrown, grand penitential cross. Going along the edge of a forest (28.7 km) the route turns right into a grass track. Passing through splendid riverside meadows and fields, the route reaches a linden-lined alley leading to the neo-Gothic Church of Virgin Mary of Aid of the Faithful in Lasek (Maria Hilf). According to folk tales, in 1745 a miraculous image of the Mother Of God appeared here and an act of miraculous healing took place. Nowadays the image is located inside the church. Visitors will also be delighted by a complex of shrines built in 1850, representing the Stations of the Cross. There is also a spring near the church, whose water is thought to have healing properties. The hiking route runs further on through the forest to end on the Nysa market square (36 km).
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