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Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Local name: Kościół Wniebowzięcia NMP

Church of Our Lady is the fourteenth-century church opaque real treasures, among which stand out above the 600-year-old murals, and a little older wooden carved choir stalls. Attention elaborately decorated pulpit and organ made in the seventeenth century, when the temple remained in the hands of Protestants. With the eighteenth century came the high altar, the rainbow arch and side altars, which temple owes Bernardynom. It is also worth to see beautiful nineteenth-century stained glass windows. Externally built by Franciscan church stands out a lump of raw and does not have a tower, and only a small signature. Although the monks came to the city as early as 1,239 years before the present structure was established in the mid-fourteenth century, as a third or fourth in this place. In the past, the church today backed convent demolished in the early nineteenth century. Was also threatened the temple itself, as a result of the passage of time has inclined part of the outer wall. Destruction of buildings also did not spare the Napoleonic wars. Fortunately, it was decided to undertake restoration work and archaeological site restored to its Gothic glory. The church outside the architectural value was also witnessed many important events. In 1636. She was held here funeral of Anna Vasa, the sister of Polish king Sigismund III Vasa. On the walls you can see the epitaphs dedicated buried here Torunianom.

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