The beautiful village church has been nicely renovated from the outside, but unfortunately: the interior has been spoiled, in my opinion, with hunting elements (candlesticks and other decorations and elementy equipment from deer antlers, etc.) for which Harklova has neither ever been famous nor associated with. This is due to the predilections of the current parish priest. This is completely at odds with the mining (oil) character of the village, its history and traditions. The church has thus changed its identity and lost its "historical spirit."
Richard S. - 23.06.2018The church in Harklowa, built in 1896, along with a bell tower from 1935, is listed in the register of monuments under the number A-199/90. The first wooden church,expanded in the late 1880s, burned down in 1894. The current brick one dates back to the late 19th century and was made according to a design by Theodor Talowski. The neo-Gothic church was designed with homogeneous stylistic furnishings, including side altars and an organ gallery with a prospectus. The interior also retains elements transferred from the former wooden church. The oldest object of the church's equipment is a stone stoup from the 1570s. From the old church probably also comes a painting depicting Christ on the cross in the iconographic type of "Christ of Milaty," popular during the Counter-Reformation. Noteworthy is the Baroque main altarpiece, which can be dated to the second half of the 18th century. Its origin is unknown, however, due to its stylistic features, it can be linked to the Lviv environment. A painting of St. Dorothy is presented in the altar interchangeably with a 17th century crucifix. The painting bears the features of Pre-Raphaelite painting, or the Brotherhood of St. Luke, and it is a set for the neo-Gothic furnishings of the temple. While in Harklowa, it is also worth visiting the parish cemetery. There is a mass grave of 68 partisans and victims of World War II exhumed from the Skołyszyn commune and the surrounding area. On the cemetery there is also a grave in which a cadet of the Austrian army, Zygmunt August de Demkowicz Dobrzanski - Goliescu, who took part in the January Uprising in 1863 in the unit of General Edmund Rozycki, was buried.
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