Celebrations marking the golden jubilee of one of the most important places for Bolesławiec and its residents will culminate in the liturgical coronation of the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help venerated in the church on Zamkowy Square. The coronation will be performed by the Bishop of Legnica, Zbigniew Kiernikowski, during the Eucharist at 12:00 p.m..

After Mass, refreshments (bigos, pierogi and cake) will be prepared for all participants in the ceremony in hermetically sealed containers intended to be eaten at home.

(Due to the pandemic situation, the festival will take place at another time).

History of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Bolesławiec

  • 1752-1756 Construction of the Evangelical church. A church was built on the site of the former ducal castle, with a rectangular floor plan and a single-space interior enclosed on three sides by wooden galleries. The barrel vault resting on the gallery supports created the impression of a three-nave church
  • 1834-1835 Addition of a 73-meter-high Neo-Gothic tower made of dressed stone
  • 1945 The church was taken over by the authorities of the Polish People's Republic. (For only a short time, it was used by the small Evangelical community that remained in Bolesławiec.) The church building, stripped of its sacred character, was converted into a warehouse for the Bolesławiec Violet and Ampoule Factory POLFA. In the 1960s, after the warehouse was closed, the church fell into disrepair and was approximately 70% destroyed
  • 1969 As a result of efforts by the Archbishop of Wrocław, Bolesław Kominek, the state authorities leased the ruined church for 39 years for religious worship
  • 12.1969 The first Eucharist (Midnight Mass) was celebrated by Father Edward Bober, the first parish priest
  • 05.1970 Establishment of the Roman Catholic parish under the invocation of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  • 04.1971 Consecration of the church by Archbishop Bolesław Kominek
  • 03.1972 Blessing of three bells from the Felczyński bell foundry in Przemyśl
  • 1976 Installation of a forty-stop organ built by the Brożek family from Tomisław
  • 10.1992 Visit of a copy of the Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Częstochowa
  • 03.1998 Relocation from the municipal cemetery to Zamkowy Square of a statue of Jesus, friend of children, created by Peter Brauer in 1902.