Franciscan Monastery Complex
Practical Information
- Detailed InformationZwińRozwiń
- Object type:
- Religious monuments
- County:
- kielecki
- Community:
- Chęciny
- Address:
- Chęciny , ul. Franciszkańska 10
- Postal Code:
- 26-060
- Latitude:
- 50.802585
- Longitude:
- 20.460393
- Tourist region:
- Kielce Region
- Phone:
- +48 41 315 10 69
- E-mail:
- checiny@franciszkanie.pl
- Website:
- www.franciszkanie.checiny.pl
- Surrounding AccommodationZwińRozwiń
Chęciny is a town located relatively close to Kielce on the route Warszawa – Kraków. The town underwent development owing to its deposits of precious metals such as lead, silver or copper. The picturesque panorama dominated by a Gothic castle...
- Chęciny
On top of the highest rocky mountain in the environs, known as Mt Zamkowa, stands a ruin of the Gothic Royal Castle of Chęciny. It was erected before 1306, and king Władysław Łokietek, bishop Jan Muskate, and king Władysław II are mentioned as its founders.
- Chęciny, pl. 2 Czerwca 4
The Parish Church of St Bartholomew is located at the rock terrace cut in the slope of the Zamkowa Mountain (300 m above sea level). It was probably founded by Władysław the Elbow-High. The construction was started around 1315 and was finished in the times of Kazimierz III the Great.
- Chęciny, ul. Radkowska 4
- +48 41 315 10 31
The crast phenomena on Zelejowa appear in numerous copybooks as a showcase of their kind. This region gained its fame because of the so called “Różanka Zalejowska” - the calcite of unique pattern.
- Zelejowa
- +48 41 315 10 06
Nature has for ages created its underground complex of breathtaking tunnels and chambers decorated with hundreds of stalagmites, stalactites, pillars and pisoids of various shapes and forms.
- Dobrzączka
- +48 41 366 30 15
Description
The monastery was founded by king Kazimierz Wielki in 1368. Ruined by Protestants and Swedes, it was rebuilt and enlarges in the later periods to acquire new cloisters, chapels and additional storeys. It was taken away from the Franciscans at the beginning of the 19th century and became a prison. The monastery was returned to the order in 1991. Renovated in 1997, the monastic church received the name of the Elevation of the Holy Cross Church.