Castle church of st. Jadwiga in Brzeg is the presbytery of the former Gothic castle chapel. In his basement there is the tomb chapel of the Brest Piasts. The temple was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt. Its current appearance is the result of renovation and regotisation after World War II. The classicistic altar and the pulpit have been preserved from the old decorations.
The history of the castle church in Brzeg is very complicated. It was built as a collegiate church in the mid-fourteenth century, and two hundred years later transformed into a castle chapel. Already then, in its underground, more princes from the Brest Piast line were buried. In the eighteenth century, after the destruction of Prussian shelling, the church was rebuilt, creating at the same time the tomb crypt and the Mausoleum of the Brzeski Piasts. Over 20 coffins and sarcophagi survived to our times. The most valuable of them are presented in the Museum of Silesian Piasts at the Castle in Brzeg.
The church is a Gothic building with tall, pointed windows. Inside there are cross-rib vaults. You can see here the modern family tree of the Silesian Piasts and the tomb crypt.
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