Located in the Bystrzyckie Mountains at an altitude of about 500 - 670 meters, the village of Kamienczyk was founded by David and Michael Tschirnhaus. The most valuable monument of the village is the toweringsits on a high southern slope, a Baroque wooden church - the oldest of the four located within Klodzko Land. It was built in 1710 with the permission of the Evangelical consistory. Since it stood on a cemetery that had existed since 1599, it initially served as a pre-burial church. It is a single-nave building with a separate chancel and a tower topped with an onion-shaped cupola. The most valuable part of the church's furnishings is the 1734 polychrome signed on the choir parapet with the letters A.F.V., attributed to Parisian painter Antoni Ferdinand Veit. Opposite the altar is a wooden polychrome sculpture depicting St. Anne Samothrace from the first half of the 18th century. A late Baroque altar from around 1720 with a central representation of the patron saint is set up in the chancel. It was purchased and brought to Kamienczyk in 1740-43 from the old church in Mladkov (Bohemia). At that time, also in Mladkov, a Late Baroque pulpit, dating to 1734, with a depiction of the four evangelists, was purchased near the southern wall. The church is beautifully situated, in the shade of old spruce trees. Right next to the church is a vantage point from which one can admire the 19th-century monastery in nearby Kraliky and the panorama of the Sněžník massif, as well as the highest peak in Jeseniky - Praděd.
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