Saint Andrew's church in Trzebieszowice, Roman Catholic parish church in Trzebieszowice, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Saint Andrew's Church in Trzebieszowice is a single-nave church built in 1813 in a classicist style with Gothic Revival elements. Its Gothic tower survives from an earlier church on the site, and the pointed-arch windows were fought for by founder Joseph von Fürstenberg against builder Knappe. The interior furnishings are mostly classicist and neo-baroque.
A church in Trzebieszowice was recorded as early as 1269, and the village itself appeared in sources in 1264. In 1530 a Protestant clergyman settled there, and during the Thirty Years' War imperial troops tried to force the population back to Catholicism, sparking peasant revolts. The present church was built in 1813 on the site of its predecessor for Joseph von Fürstenberg by the master builder Knappe; the Gothic tower survives from the earlier structure.
The parish belonged to Protestants from the 1660s, and in the 18th century the church of St Bartholomew in Skrzynka became a branch of the Trzebieszowice Protestant parish. After 1945, furnishings from churches in Wyżniany, Kurowice and Sołowa arrived with resettled people, but they were damaged in later decades. Near the church stands a historic mortuary whose entrance is decorated with the motif of Veronica's veil.
The church stands in Trzebieszowice in the Kłodzko Land, within the Świdnica diocese, and is reached by local roads through the village. The Gothic tower and the 1813 nave are part of a listed complex that also includes the early 19th-century parish house, so both buildings are worth locating. The church is an active parish church, so visits fit around services.
The pointed windows were a compromise won by the founder: during the 1813 works Joseph von Fürstenberg clashed with the master builder Knappe over their shape and prevailed, giving the church its Gothic Revival look. Stonework from the earlier Renaissance and Baroque church was built into the facade of the nearby Schlabrendorf palace.
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