Church of St. Nicholas in Żeleźnica

"[...] that Poland, which he found clay, wooden and dirty, would leave brick [...]" - Jan Długosz (Considered as Poland's first historian)

The first chapel was a wooden building, which was built in the place where Casimir III the Great had an accident while hunting for deer. This accident took place on September 8, 1370, and the complications associated with it proved fatal to him. The church burned twice, in 1617 and 1866. Through the efforts of Fr. Filemon Kucharski in the second half of the nineteenth century was rebuilt, and at the end of that century was even enlarged.

The Roman Catholic Church belongs to the Diocese of Radom.

Worth knowing...

Jan of Czarnków, who was also an eyewitness to the events, wrote about the accident of King Casimir III the Great. More than 6 centuries after the event, the king's tomb was opened in the Wawel Cathedral and the words of the chronicler about the broken leg were confirmed:

"In the year of Our Lord 1370, the month of September, on the eighth day, which was the day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, when the so often mentioned the most serene King Casimir stayed at the court of Przedbórz, he wanted, as it was in his habit of going deer hunting. When his royal chariot was ready and the king wanted to get into it, some of the faithful advised him not to go hunting that day. Agreeing to this, the king intended to stay, but some vice whispered to him a few words about some - I think more like the truth - game, whereupon the king, disregarding sound advice, mounted his chariot and hastened to the forest to hunt. There, the next day, while chasing a deer, the horse fell over under him, fell from it and received a considerable wound in the left shin..."