Podlaskie tourist guide - part II

• municipal slaughterhouse building complex
1906,
• Polish war shelters from 1939.
Nowogród
• 14 th c. mediaeval settlement with remains of
castle of Mazovian Dukes,
• 16 th c. urban layout,
• Church of Our Lady, 15 th -20 th c., presbytery,
1882,
• Adam Chêtnik’s tomb in form of a curved log
of wood in the local cemetery,
• Polish war shelters from 1939.
Pi¹tnica
• £om¿a bridge fortification complex comprising
3 forts and embankments, 1887-1908, and
Polish war shelters from 1939,
• brick neo-gothic Church of Transfiguration of
the Lord, 1914-1938, presbytery, 1880.
Szczepankowo
• brick St. Adalbert Church, 16 th c.,
• manor, 1825.
Wizna
• mediaeval urban layout, main square with
buildings, 19 th and 20 th c.,
• gothic St. John the Baptist Church, 1500-1509,
bell tower from 17 th c.,
• 11 th -14 th c. settlement “Zamczysko”, later cas-
tle of Mazovian Dukes.
MOÑKI COUNTY
Gie³czyn
• wooden Birth of Our Lady Church, 1777.
Goni¹dz
• brick St. Agnes and St. Anthony of Padua
Church, 1922-1924, neo-baroque, threenave,
basilican with transept,
• St. Florian Chapel, 1864, brick,
• brick neo-gothic cemetery chapel of Holy
Spirit, 1907,
• wooden water mill, late 19 th c.,
• wooden and brick houses, early 20 th c.,
• ruins of Polish war shelters from 1939.
Jasionówka
• 16 th -17 th c. urban layout,
• brick Holy Trinity Church, mid-16 th c.,
• wooden cemetery chapel, 1832-1833,
• remains of Jewish cemetery, 1800,
• Wo³³owicz Family manor complex,
• wooden house and smithy, late 19 th c.
Kalinówka Koœcielna
• wooden St. Anna Church, 1774, three-nave
with spires,
• wooden and wooden-brick outbuildings, early
19 th c., including lumber mill, 1783,
• cemetery fencing and gate, 1848,
• pitstone windmill, 1924.
Knyszyn
• 16 th c. urban layout, including a wooden
house, 2 nd half 18 th c., in 6 Koœcielna St.,
• brick church of St. John the Apostle and John
the Evangelist, 1520, destroyed in the fire of
1710, restored and rebuilt in 1772, classicist
interior from 18 th and 19 th c., baroque sculptures
from 17 th c.,
• former wooden presbytery, late 19 th c. with
wooden junk house from 1818-1820,
• remains of manor park from 16 th c., replanted
in 17 th -19 th c.;
• hospital buildings, 1910-1912,
• four old cemeteries: Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox
and Jewish placed on former causeways
across 16 th c. ponds,
• about 4 km north of the town – Lake Czechowi-
zna (Sigismund Augustus Lake) – artificial reservoir
built in 1559, one of oldest in Poland.
Krypno Koœcielne
• brick church of the Birth of Our Lady, 1881-1885,
miraculous painting of Our Lady of Krypno
inside, baroque sculpture of Crucified Christ
from 17 th c., neo-classicist interiors.
Osowiec Twierdza
• fortification complex of Russian Osowiec
Stronghold, late 19 th c./early 20 th c.,
- fort I – Centralny (Central) (Skorbielew Hill),
guided tours only,
- fort II – Zarzeczny (Behind the River),
- fort III – Szwedzki (Swedish),
- fort IV – Nowy (New),
• Polish war shelters from 1939.
Stare Dolistowo
• late classicist brick church of St. Lawrence,
1789-1791, rebuilt in mid-19 th c.,
• brick cemetery church of St. George, around
1820,
• windmill from mid-19th c. (present mechanic mill).
Trzcianne
• brick St. Peter and Paul Church, 1846-1850,
expanded in 1948-1949,
• brick bell tower, 2 nd half 19 th c.,
• wooden houses, early 20 th c.
SEJNY COUNTY
Ber¿niki
• Assumption of Our Lady parish church complex,
which includes wooden church form
1819, restored in 1880, 2 bricj chapels from
18 th c., 2 wooden bell towers from mid-19 th c.,
fencing with gate from late 19 th c., wooden
presbytery from early 20 th c.,
• war cemetery from World War I period.
Krasnopol
• classicist brick one-nave Transfiguration of the
Lord Church, 1862,
• wooden St. Agatha Chapel, 60s 19 th c.,
• wooden presbytery, mid-19 th c.,
• wooden houses, 19 th c. and early 20 th c.
Puñsk
• brick Assumption of Our Lady Church built in
1877-1881,
• wooden synagogue and Talmudic school,
19 th /20 th c., and Jewish cemetery,
• wooden buildings late 19 th c. and 1 st half 20 th c.
Sejny
• Dominican Monastic Complex, 1610-1619,
which includes: Annunciation of Our Lady
Church – three-nave basilica, originally renais-
sance, expanded in 1760 in baroque style, 11
baroque and rococo altars from mid-18 th c.
The most precious piece is the gothic folding
cupboard altar with sculpture of Our Lady,
brought to Sejny from Königsberg at the be-
ginning of 16 th c.; monastery from 1619-1706,
rebuilt in late 18 th and 19 th , fencing with
gates,
• synagogue, 1860-1870, (present gallery), and
Talmudic house from 2 nd half of 19 th c., nowadays
housing workshops and studios of the
“Borderland” Centre and a public library,
• neo-gothic former evangelical church, present
Roman-Catholic church of Our Lady of Czêstochowa,
mid-19 th c.,
• Chapel of St. Agatha, 1789,
• town hall, 1840,
• post office, late 19 th ,
• wooden and brick inn, late 18 th c.
Szejpiszki
• manor complex from 18 th c., including manor,
granary, smithy and park.
Trakiszki
• wooden railway station from 1896.
SIEMIATYCZE COUNTY
Drohiczyn
• Benedictine Nunnery Complex, 1729-1744,
with late baroque All Saints’ Church featuring
beautiful rococo façade with two towers and
extended top, monastic buildings confiscated
and devastated by Tsarist authorities in 1865,
restored in post-war period,
• brick Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas the
Wonderworker, 1763-1792, classicist, built as
Greco-Catholic, after 1828 taken over by the
Orthodox Church, rebuilt after 20 years. Interior
iconostasis moved form an Orthodox
church in Bielsk Podlaski.
• Jesuit Monastic Complex, which includes
Holy Trinity Church from 1709, former monas-
tery (1661-1710) present episcopal see, belltower
gate, former college from 1747, outbuilding
from 18 th c.,
• Franciscan Monastic Compex from 18 th c.,
with Assumption of Our Lady Church, bell
tower, former monastery, caretaker’s lodge,
house in 4 Kraszewskiego St. (present seat
of diocesan house of retired priests and Dio-
cesan Museum). Present façade of the church
and altar inside from 1730, chapel of Our Lady
of Loreto finished late 18 th c. Around 1840 the
church was turned into an Orthodox Church,
after1865 the monastery was turned into
barracks. Church was restored in 1918-30
and 1949-63,
• Góra Zamkowa (Castle Hill) with early mediae-
val settlement (9 th -12 th c.), obelisk on top, 1928,
commemorating 10th anniversary of Polish
assumption of independence, panorama of
the Bug River Valley and Drohiczyn,
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Places of historic interest