Assumption of Holy Mary Church, Haczów


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.
The church in Haczów is the largest wooden Gothic church in Europe, and simultaneously one of the oldest wooden framework churches in Poland.

History

The wooden church in Haczów was built out of a wooden framework, raised after 1459, and expanded in 1624 ; between 1784 and 1789. The interior of the church is decorated with a polychrome from 1494, and later expanded in 1864.