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the park is open on weekends

The church was built in the years 1717–1721. It was founded by Jan Pokrzywnicki – a canon of Gniezno, parish priest of Kraków and Łaków. It is a wooden building with a log construction, boarded. Its body was built on a rectangular plan and consists of three naves of the same height separated by four pairs of columns. The presbytery is narrower, closed polygonally. Next to it on the eastern side there is a rectangular brick sacristy, next to the body on the southern side there is a square porch. The interior is covered with flat ceilings, the choir is supported by two columns. The doorframes have a wavy lintel cutout. The church is covered with gable, shingle roofs, above the nave there is a turret with a bell tower. The building was consecrated on November 18, 1721 by Father Sebastian Kasprowicz, canon of Łęczyca and parish priest of Piątkowo, with the consent of the Archbishop of Gniezno, Stanisław Szembek.

The current parish church, made of larch wood, of log construction, on a cross plan, was founded in 1765 by the Sochaczew steward Adam Lasocki from Gosławice, together with his son Wawrzyniec. The church was rebuilt in 1845. In the 1920s, it was reinforced and placed on the foundation. The Wieliszew temple has a Baroque-Rococo interior from the 18th century. The main altar contains a painting of the Mother of God with the Child in her right hand. The side altars are dedicated to St. Anne and the Crucified Christ. The Gothic stone baptismal font from 1538 and the Rococo pulpit from the 18th century are worthy of attention.

The church in Głowno-Osiny was built between 1928 and 1936. It was built on land donated by the local tableware factory "Norblin" with contributions from the factory's employees and financial support from its management. The author of the design was architect Wiesław Lisowski. The church was a branch of the Dmosin parish. The German occupation stopped the finishing work. Although a rector's office was established at the church in 1941, during the occupation services were held here sporadically. After the war, the interior furnishings were supplemented, but the development of the community was prevented by the policies of the communist authorities. It was not until December 6, 1952 that the bishop of Łódź, Michał Klepacz, established the parish of St. Barbara, virgin and martyr, at the church. Two years later, a rectory was built. In 2008, the interior of the church was renovated.

In the mid-15th century, a fortified castle was probably built in Sobota on Tomasz's initiative. Based on it, in the mid-16th century, a brick defensive manor house was built, the shape of which blurred the original character of the stronghold. The founder of the new complex was one of two brothers: Tomasz or Brycjusz Sobocki. The first of them, the chamberlain of Łęczyca from 1542 and castellan of Gostyń from 1546, built a parish church in Sobota, the second in turn financed the Renaissance tombstones in it. It is not known what happened to the Sobota manor house - 150 years later it was referred to as a brick treasury, no longer serving residential purposes. The neo-Gothic palace was built on the foundations of the old building. The current manor house in Sobota was built on the initiative of August Zawisza in the second half of the 19th century. It is a single-storey building built of brick in the form of a castle. Above the main entrance there is an additional floor, which is crowned with a neo-Gothic battlement. An octagonal tower, also crowned with battlements, was added to the north. The building is situated on a small elevation, which is surrounded by a moat. The manor is located in a park, in which there are also farm and residential buildings. In 1890, the estate was acquired by Artur Stokowski and his wife. On their initiative, the palace was expanded in the interwar period. The next owners of Sobota were Wiktor and Bogna Przegaliński, who bought it in 1927 with the intention of opening a breeding farm for Anglo-Arabian horses there. After the end of World War II, the estate was divided into parcels. It was divided between the State Agricultural Farm and the State Stud Farm in Walewice. The palace was transformed into a multi-family residential building. During archaeological and architectural research conducted in 1985, the remains of a hexagonal tower measuring 4.5 m on a side, supported by corner buttresses in a Gothic brick layout, were identified in the walls of the neo-Gothic manor house. This is the only known remnant of the Gothic castle. The building is currently abandoned.

The Łowicz Ethnographic Park in Maurzyce collects architectural monuments from the former Duchy of Łowicz (the area of the contemporary Łowicz and Skierniewice counties). It is located approximately 7 km from Łowicz, on the Warsaw-Poznań route. It was opened to visitors in the mid-1980s. Currently, there are over 40 objects here, mostly dating back to the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. Their layout shows two historical spatial layouts of the Łowicz village: the so-called old village – an oval with a central village square, present in the 19th century, and the so-called new village – a post-enfranchisement street village. http://muzeumlowicz.pl/skansen_w_maurzycach/

The park is only open on weekends

From the town of Sobota, driving from the church, you reach the entrance gate to the park. According to the information there, the park is open on Saturdays and Sundays. You can drive up to the remains of the manor and take a closer look at them.