Podlaskie tourist guide - part II

mansard roof and tower, 18 th c., (since 1977
a branch of Podlaskie Museum),
• Talmudic House (Beith Hamidrasz), built in 18 th
c., destroyed during World War II, rebuilt after
war, housing a branch of Podlaskie Museum,
• Jewish cemetery, 16 th c. (oldest tombstones
from 18 th c.),
• manor of the administrator of Tykocin estate,
18 th c., (present Culture Centre),
• Seminary, 1633-1645, late renaissance, square-shaped
(present board and lodgings establishment).
Zab³udów
• 16 th c. urban layout,
• classicist Dormition of Our Lady Orthodox
Church, built in 1847-1855 on plan of Greek
cross, domed front tower,
• classicist brick St. Peter and Paul Church,
1805-1840,
• St. Roch cemetery chapel, 1850,
• St. Maria Magdalena cemetery chapel, 1848,
• remains of Radziwi³³ palace: backhouse and
park, 2nd half 19 th c.,
• wooden houses, late 19 th and early 20 th c.
BIELSK PODLASKI COUNTY
Bielsk Podlaski
• mediaeval settlement, 12 th /13 th c.,
• urban layout, 15 th -19 th c.,
• town hall – late baroque, built in 1776-79, spire
decorated with a locust figure to commemorate
the strike of locust swarm in 1779,
• parish complex of Birth of Our Lady and St.
Nicholas churches, 1783-1784, including:
brick church (1873), brick bell tower (1843),
cemetery and wooden presbytery (1900),
• mid-17 th c. monastic complex of Calced Carmelite
Order, including monastery, church,
backhouse, chapel, fencing with towers and
gate (present State School of Music),
• wooden Birth of Our Lady Orthodox Church
“Preczystieñska”, late 17 th c.,
• wooden (lined with brickwork) Resurrection of
the Lord Orthodox Church “Woskriesienska”,
early 18 th c.,
• wooden St. Michael Orthodox Church “Michaj-
³owska”, 1789, featuring Poland’s only School
of Iconography,
• wooden cemetery Orthodox Church of the
Holy Trinity, 16 th c., (thoroughly renovated in
18 th c.),
• wooden Smulski manor, late 19 th c.
Boæki
• 16 th /18 th c. urban layout with rectangular main
square,
• Reformers’ Monastery, 1730-1739, with St. Josef
the Betrothed and St. Anthony of Padua
Church, bell tower, fencing with chapels and
cemetery,
• brick Dormition of Our Lady Orthodox Church,
1820, with brick bell tower from 1 st half 19 th c.
Brañsk
• early mediaeval settlement,
• 15 th -18 th c. urban layout,
• classicist Assumption of Holy Virgin Mary, 861-
1863, burnt down and restored in 1944-45,
nearby brick church tower,
• St. Simeon Stylites Orthodox Church, 19 th /20 th c.,
• wooden Tsarist barracks, 1875-1890, (present
social welfare centre),
• urban buildings 19 th /20 th c.
Domanowo
• Wooden St. Dorothy parish church, 1763
– 1779, with bell tower, late 17 th c.,
• wooden buildings late 19 th /early 20 th c.
Orla
• wooden St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox
Church, 1797, nearby wooden bell tower, 1874,
• 18 th c. cemetery with wooden cemetery chapel
of St. Cyril and Methodius, 1870,
• brick synagogue, 2 nd half 18 th c., interior partly
preserved polychromy,
• 18 th c. Jewish cemetery, a dozen of preserved
tombstones.
Rudka
• brick Holy Trinity Church, 1753-1759,
• Ossoliñski palace complex, including palace
from 1763 rebuilt in 1913-1914, so-called “new
palace” from 1930, brick orangery from 2 nd
half 18 th c., brick and wooden outbuildings
from 19 th /20 th c., backhouse 19 th /20 th c.,
landscape park from 1763 (present Krzysztof
Kluk Agriculture School Complex)
• two brick chapels, 2 nd half 18 th c.,
• brick inn, 19 th c.,
• 17 th c. urban layout, with wooden village buildings
late 19 th /early 20 th c.
Strabla
• brick Assumption of the Lord Church, 1617,
bell tower, 1779,
• palace and park complex, 18 th /19 th c., including
manor, park, lumber room, backhouse,
stables, cow-shed, smithy.
Szczyty-Dziêcio³owo
• wooden Beheading of St. John the Baptist Orthodox
Church, 1785,
• cemetery Orthodox church, 2 nd half 18 th c.
• stone figure of St. John of Nepomuk, 1758.
Wyszki
• neo-gothic brick St. Andrew the Apostle
Church, 1901-1905, façade elements imitating
the Vilnius St. Anna Church.
GRAJEWO COUNTY
Grajewo
• brick neo-gothic Holy Trinity Church, 1879-
1882, three-nave, basilican, nearby brick bell
tower, 1860,
• cemetery St. Anna chapel, 1839, interior marble
epitaphs of the Wilczewski Family,
• railway station, 1873.
Kramarzewo
• wooden baroque St. Barbara Church, 1739,
moved in 80s 20th c. from Radziwi³ów
• wooden bell tower from 1778
NiedŸwiadna
• brick late gothic St. Stanislaus the Bishop
Church, 1 st half 16 th c., interior semicircular
closed portals, baroque sculptures, 18 th c.,
• wooden bell tower, 1760,
• brick presbytery, 20s 20 th c., brick cemetery
chapel, late 19 th c.
Radzi³ów
• brick presbytery, 1881-1883 (church from 1981),
• wooden and brick buildings, late 19 th /early
20 th c.
Rajgród
• mediaeval settlement (10 th -13 th c.), part of
Yotvingians defence system,
• triangular main square, 16 th c., with buildings
from late 19th c.,
• brick Birth of Our Lady Church, 1906-1912,
altar features the painting of Our Lady of Rajgród
from 17 th c.
Szczuczyn
• Piarist Monastery, 1697-1700, with Mary’s
Name Church, 1701-1711, three-nave, basilican,
baroque stucco decorations in main
nave, college adjacent to church,
• remains of Szczuka Family palace, 1705-1709,
• main square with one-storied brick buildings,
2 nd half 19 th c., old post office complex, 1824.
W¹sosz
• brick late baroque Transfiguration of the Lord
Church, 1508-1534,
• wooden bell tower, 18 th c.,
• Annunciation of Our Lady Carmelite Church, 1625,
• brick cemetery chapel, 1913,
• wooden and brick houses, 19 th /20 th c.,
• wooden water mill, early 20 th c.,
• brick smithy 20s 20 th c..
HAJNÓWKA COUNTY
Bia³owie¿a
• palace park, planted in late 19 th c. according
to Walerian Kronenberg design, at the same
time a botanical garden covering 48 ha, featuring
90 tree and shrub species,
• wooden Tsarist hunting manor, 1846,
• obelisk commemorating King Augustus III the
Saxon hunting of 1752,
• brick St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Orthodox
Church, 1889-1893, featuring porcelain
iconostasis,
• wooden cemetery Orthodox Church of St.
Cyril and Methodius, 1873,
• wooden Orthodox presbytery, late 19 th c.,
• brick St. Theresa of Baby Jesus Church, built
in 1927-35, interior chapel of St. Hubertus
– patron saint of hunters and foresters,
• wooden railway station, late 19 th c. (present
Carska Restaurant).
• Stara Bia³owie¿a Reserve with a group of monumental
oaks.
Czeremcha
• wooden and brick railway control room and
railway guard’s lodge, early 20 th c.,
• wooden and brick buildings, late 19 th /early
20 th c.
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