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beautifully located wooden church from the 16th century.

The Bobrowscy Palace in Andrychów (also called Andrychów Castle) is currently undergoing intensive renovation. Work, which began in the spring of last year, is in the first, crucial stage of renovation, focusing on securing the structure of the building. Key information about the current state of work (April 2026): Scope of work: Currently, complex earthworks and underground activities are underway. The key challenge is draining the flooded cellars and strengthening and insulating the foundations, which turned out to be in worse condition than expected. Estimated deadline: According to the current schedule, the current stage of securing work is expected to last until September 2026. What's next? After the completion of the foundation work, further stages are planned to restore the splendor of the facade and interiors, but their implementation will depend on obtaining further funding.

The founder of this attraction got a bit carried away🤣 I have already proposed a name change - it will probably take a while. The correct name and location are: Church of St. Matthias the Apostle in Andrychów It is the most important sacral monument in the city, located in the very center. Beginnings (14th c.): The first mentions of the parish date back to 1325–1346. In the tithe records from 1344, payments for the "construction of the church" were mentioned. Original buildings: In the 16th century, there was a wooden church here, which was then a branch of the parish in Wieprz. Current temple (17th–18th c.): In 1646, on the initiative of Elżbieta of Przytycka Zebrzydowska, the construction of a brick church began. In 1721, the church was consecrated after a thorough Baroque renovation. Between 1722 and 1726, the Brotherhood of the Rosary of the Sweetest Name of Jesus was founded at the church. Expansion (19th–20th c.): The temple was enlarged with chapels (1725) and modernized in 1838 and 1924–1929.

Due to ongoing renovations and construction work, the palace interiors are inaccessible to visitors. It is only possible to walk in the adjacent City Park.

The classicist, single-story, brick manor house is basemented and covered by low saddle roofs. Currently, it has a horseshoe plan. The central part is adorned with a portico with four Doric columns and a triangular pediment containing the coats of arms: "Jastrzębiec" of the Bobrowskis and "Poraj" of the Męciński family, from which Stefan Bobrowski's wife came. At the rear, it has a prominent avant-corps. Large, semi-circularly closed or rectangular windows. From the southwest, there is a corner turret.

The interior is dominated by a flat ceiling with traces of Renaissance coffers, below which there is also a Renaissance frieze. Read more here: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%9Bci%C3%B3%C5%82_%C5%9Bw._Andrzeja_w_Osieku_%28nieu%C5%BCytkowany%29

The church is oriented, built of log construction, except for the tower, which has a post-and-beam structure. The polygonal chancel is located in the eastern part of the church, and the sacristy adjoins it to the north. The nave, wider and higher than the chancel, is built on a roughly square plan. The entire structure is covered by a shingled, double-ridged roof, which is more characteristic of wooden churches of the Silesian type than those of Lesser Poland. At the eastern edge of the roof above the nave is an onion-shaped bell tower. Located in the western part of the church, the tower has sloping walls, a saddle-shaped roof protrudes from its central section, a porch at the top, and a pyramidal dome, formerly spire-shaped, with four accompanying corner turrets, above it.

According to recent research, the church was likely founded by Seweryn Boner and built between 1538 and 1549, on the site of a previous one. A tower was added to the west between 1610 and 1617. In 1732, the existing brick sacristy was replaced with a new, wooden one, and arcades (arcades) were added to the nave and chancel walls, which once housed 14 Stations of the Cross paintings. It ceased use in 1908, and a new church in the neo-Gothic style took over as the parish church in Osiek. Initially, the building was to be demolished, but the conservator refused to allow this, and he also allocated some of the necessary funds for its preservation; the remaining funds were allocated by the collaborator Oskar Rudziński. A thorough renovation took place between 1970 and 1975, and the interior and furnishings were renovated in the 1990s. In 2007, the roof covering and facade were replaced.