Historic buildings

Heritage sites

Grabów nad Prosną commune offers rich heritage monuments of sacred and lay culture, each of them with its own unique history.

          The most interesting of them include:

• Grabów nad Prosną – Franciscan monastery complex,
  • Monastery church of Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception,
  • Monastery buildings (housing part, library),
• Grabów nad Prosną – parish church complex
  • Parish church of Our Lady’s Heart and St. Nicholas,
  • Presbytery,
• Grabów nad Prosną – sculpture: roadside cross,
• Grabów nad Prosną – Manor and park complex,
  • manor (currently administrative premises of the Town and Commune Council),
  • land steward’s house,
  • park,
• Grabów nad Prosną – urban architecture, the town’s layout and archaeological sites,
• Grabów nad Prosną – house at the Market Square (Rynek Władysława Jagiełły 10),
• Giżyce – a larch manor (in disrepair),
• Giżyce – parish church of Transfiguration,
• Bobrowniki – St. Barbara’s church and bell tower,
• Bukownica – parish church of St. Philip and Jacob the Apostles,
• Bukownica – burial ground of Lusatian culture,
• Chlewo – parish church of St. Martin,
• Chlewo – early medieval settlement,
• Smolniki – early medieval settlement,
• Marszałki – manor complex,
  • Care home
    • outbuilding – laundry, hotel,
    • granary – coach house,
    • farm and housing building,

• Christ the King’s church,
• Presbytery.

Grabów nad Prosną

Parish church of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart and St. Nicholas at Grodzka Street. It took 22 years to build the church, which was completed in 1684. It burnt down in 1830. Its current form with Baroque traces dates from its renovation in 1870. The interior has a chancel with polygonal termination, a square chapel on the extension of the right aisle, two Baroque altars from the 18/19 centuries, and stained glass windows by Jan Piasecki. At the entrance to the church square there stands a wooden cross with 12 folk statues made by Paweł Bryliński in 1858.

Monastery church dedicated to Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception along with monastery buildings. The complex, previously Franciscan, was built in the 17^th century in the years 1642-58, rebuilt in 1723-1741, the façade was renovated in 1998-2000.

Evangelical church, 1887, non-plastered wall, Neo-Gothic, square tower with octagonal pyramid cupola, now closed.

Graveyard near the road to Kalisz, area 1.84 ha;
Monument to those killed and murdered in 1939-45, three graves of unknown Polish soldiers,
Grave of Stefan Wichrzycki (1907-83) – patriot and social activist,
18^th/19^th centuries brick manor, currently the Town and Commune Council,
Previous border watchtower, approx. 1900, brick, one floor, roofing over entrance, now apartment block.

Bobrowniki

St. Barbara’s branch church of 1735, wooden, renovated in 1832 and 1910, shingled roof with a tower for a little bell, old polychrome with scenes of St. Barbara’s life, in high altar a picture of St. Barbara from mid-17^th century,

Bell tower from 1^st half of the 19^th century, brick, Neoclassical in the form of a wall with a niche.

Bukownica

Parish church of St. Philip and Jacob the Apostles – 1721, the wall was reconstructed after a fire in 1776, one nave, the tower was rebuilt in 1863 in the Neo-Gothic style, Baroque internal decorations from the second half of the 18^th century, two Gothic statues of apostles

One-floor brick presbytery from 1885

A plaque at the main crossing put in 1970, to commemorate 5 policemen killed on 29 January 1945 in a fight against German marauders.

Chlewo

 St. Martin’s parish church – 1651, wooden, shingled roofs with wide eaves, a short tower on the west, inside 16 century statues on the rood beam, three Baroque altars, a crucifix dated 1653.

A manor dating from early 19^th cent., wooden, with attic, hipped gable roof, side annexes, currently in disrepair.

In the park a stone figure of Our Lady – first half of the 19^th century.

Giżyce

Parish church of Transfiguration – 1870, brick, Neoclassical, one nave, inside three neo-Baroque altars.

Bell tower, 1870, brick, eclectic

Brick presbytery – end of the 19^th century

Larch manor, mid-18 century, rebuilt at the beginning of the 20^th century, hipped roof of Polish type with extensions, out of two corner bedchambers the eastern one was preserved, now in disrepair.

Marszałki

Manor complex, second half of 19^th century, built by countess Bismarck von Bohlen. The complex includes a previous orphanage, living quarters for farm labourers, a coach house and housing and farm buildings. Currently it hosts a care home, while the previous villa is now the house of Salesian priests.

Farm and housing complex

- Care home

a) farm building – laundry, hotel

b) granary – coach house

c) housing and farm building

Christ the King’s church