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| 2015 Church of Peace in Jawor |
Posted on 07.11.2015, 24.12.2015
The Churches of Peacein Jawor (German: Jauer) and Świdnica (German: Schweidnitz) in Silesia were named after the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, that ratified, among others, that Protestants and Catholics are equal before the law. It permitted the Lutherans in the Roman Catholic parts of Silesia to build three churches from wood, loam and straw outside the city walls, without steeples and bells. The construction time was limited to one year.
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| 2146 Church of Peace in Świdnica |
The result was the erection of the largest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe, were built in the former Silesia in the mid-17th century. Constrained by the physical and political conditions, the Churches of Peace bear testimony to the quest for religious freedom and are a rare expression of Lutheran ideology in an idiom generally associated with the Catholic. In addition to the two was also built such a church in Głogów (then German Glogau) which burned down in 1758.
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