St. Nicholas Church in Gąsawa - wooden, larch, timber-frame church, built around 1625 by the Canons Regular of Trzemeszno, located in Gąsawa.awa. A recent renovation uncovered a Gothic frame beam system unique in Greater Poland, with later additions. The richest roof trusses. Around 1850, thanks to the decision of the Prussian authorities, who did not give permission to demolish the former temple and erect a brick church, it still exists today. There was a shortage of sponsors from Trzemeszno after the dissolution of the monasteries. The local community had enough resources to repair the crumbling church - the roof truss was changed, shingles were replaced with slate, and beams, called foxgloves, were added to straighten the walls. There were not enough resources to restore the wall paintings and so they were covered with reeds and plastered over. Their existence was forgotten for 150 years. In recent years, the church was threatened by another building disaster. In 1998-1999, the roof truss was changed, many elements on the footing were replaced, and it was newly planked. In the final days of the two-year renovation, the condition of the plastered so-called foxholes was checked. When the plaster was removed from one, and the decayed beam was moved away from the wall, the figure of the painting of St. Augustine on the log beam appeared. A visit to the Gniezno archives yielded records of paintings on the ceilings and walls of the Gniezno temple. After several stages of removing the plaster from the ceiling and walls, a set of wall paintings appeared - illusionistic, multi-layered, overlapping. A lot of symbolism. One of the layers was accurately dated to 1705-1706. Large stretches of paintings are called tapestries, tapestries by art historians and conservators. The nave paintings were restored from the Ministry of Culture's fund in 2003. The rainbow beam with the crucifixion group Since July 2006, restoration work has been underway in the chancel. 3 scenes depict St. Augustine, whose monastic rule was taken over by the Canons Regular. A number of saints: Catherine, Barbara, Stephen, Lawrence. The image of the Last Judgment, a rarity - a scene of suffering Job, a symbolic juxtaposition of the witnesses of the Resurrection next to the Glorified Christ: Thomas, Peter, Magdalene and St. Paul. On the front wall David and a painting of St. Cecilia. Under the choir, poorly preserved scenes from the life of the church's patron saint, St. Nicholas. In the choir, an instrument from 1815 against a painted organ prospectus. In the chancel, a tent (the time of the battles with the Turko-Tatars) as the background of the main altar, supported by angels, on the ceiling a row of angels making music, combining floral elements. In the center of the ceiling, the Apocalyptic Madonna surrounded by the 4 Evangelists. On the tapestry scenes with an open sinner, a rent coin, the Eucharist, the granting of primacy. A number of patron saints: St. Adalbert, St. Casimir the King, St. Stanislaus Kostka painted just before his canonization. The church also retains numerous Baroque wood carvings, five altars, a pulpit. On the beam is a late Gothic crucifixion group. A late Renaissance (actually Mannerist) baptistery with Baroque elements and a brick rotunda with a movable nativity scene, added in 1817, have also survived to our days.
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