Assumption of Holy Mary Church in Haczów
Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Haczowie
Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Status	active church
Location
Location	Haczów, Poland
Architecture
Type	Gothic
Completed	after 1459
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name: Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland
Type	Cultural
Criteria	iii, iv
Designated	2003 (27th session)
Reference no.	1053
State Party	Poland
Region	Europe

Assumption of Holy Mary Church in Haczów - a Gothic, wooden church located in the village of Haczów from the fifteenth-century, which together with different churches is designated as part of the UNESCO Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland.^[1] The church in Haczów is the largest wooden Gothic church in Europe, and simultaneously one of the oldest wooden framework churches in Poland.^[2]

History

The wooden church in Haczów was built out of a wooden framework, raised after 1459, and expanded in 1624 (with the building of the 25 metre starling tower, built away from the church, topped out with a cupola, pl:soboty (low wooden arcade around the church supported by pillars), the creation of windows in the nave, and the building of an earth bulwark); between 1784 and 1789 (expansion of the sacristy, building of new soboty). The interior of the church is decorated with a polychrome from 1494 (most likely the oldest polychrome of its type in Europe, representing the oldest collection of representative paintings in Poland), and later expanded in 1864.^[3]

References

49°40′13″N 21°53′24″E / 49.6703°N 21.89°E / 49.6703; 21.89