Co-cathedral of Saint Hedwig

Cathedral of Sts. Jadwigo is one of the most beautiful and representative buildings of Zielona Góra, and yet the oldest in the city. The interior of the restored temple is adorned with an altar with images depicting the mysteries of the rosary and the patron saint of the church, the baroque organs and the beautiful side chapel of the Lord's Grave.

The temple was founded in the second half of the 13th century at the initiative of its founder, Prince Konrad I Głogowski. For centuries it has been rebuilt several times, and the effects are clearly visible in its walls. It is interesting to note that St. Jadwiga, the patroness of the church, was in fact the founder's grandmother. Sam Karol, after his death, was buried in the crypt of the temple. Several decades after the construction of the church burned down, so from the first walls preserved only small Gothic fragments. Further fires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries made new devastation, and in 1776 the tower and part of the main nave of the chancel collapsed. The whole was rebuilt in new styles at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The fateful history of the cathedral is not only related to the walls, because in the 16th century the church was subjected to the Augustinian and Lutheran churches for some time, and returned to Catholics in 1651.