Boguszyce (Rawa poviat) - Boguszyce (powiat rawski)

Boguszyce - village in Poland located in voivodeship of Lodz, in Rawa County, in the municipality Rawa Mazowiecka.

In the years 1975–1998 the town was administratively part of the Skierniewice Province.

Geographic coordinates: 51 ° 45′11 ″ N 20 ° 11′56 ″ E

History

A village in the Rawa Mazowiecka commune, in Wysoczyzna Rawska, southwest of Rawa Mazowiecka, charmingly situated on the Rawa River, piled up with several ponds. The first records from the 14th century

Historical monuments

Larch church. st. Stanislaus with rich polychromes inside
Larch church. st. Stanislaus
Church of st. Stanislaus the bishop
Belfry
The interior of the larch church. st. Stanisław in Boguszyce with rich polychromes
The polychrome on the ceiling above the nave of the church. st. Stanisław Bishop in Boguszyce
Polychrome on the wall of the larch church. st. Stanisław Bishop in Boguszyce
The figure of St. John Paul II in front of the church in Boguszyce
  • Church of st. Stanislaus bishop is one of the most valuable sacred monuments of wooden architecture not only in Mazovia but also in Poland. It was built in the years 1550-1558 from the foundation of Wojciech Rawicz Boguski, in the place of the older one from 1521, and renovated several times.
    The larch church is an oriented, three-nave church with a carcass construction, timbered with boards and covered with a shingled roof. The nave is square with a chancel of equal width, the aisles are slightly narrower, separated by profiled pillars. Profiled door frames, doors with old fittings. The ceiling inside is richly decorated with Renaissance-mannerist polychrome from 1558 with frame motifs filled with floral decorations and depicting Christ Pantocrator, Evangelists, animal motifs and allegories of deadly sins, as well as arabesques and grotesques. Wall polychromes present biblical scenes.
    Baroque altars from the 18th century, in the main altar a carved triptych also from 1558 and 3 triptychs in the side altars with features typical of the Wit Stwosz school. On the walls of the nave there are paintings with figures of saints. Late Gothic paintings from the second half of the 16th century
  • It stands right next to the church wooden belfry from the 18th century coming from the religious complex in Lubochnia.
  • A route runs through the village Narrow-Gauge Railway Rogów-Rawa-Biała (Dec. 1000A of December 31, 1996, as the Rogowska Commuter Railway). The track line with the Boguszyce stop is a historic spatial communication system from 1915. Also an interesting bridge from 1935, made of steel, plate girder, with an upper ride. There used to be an additional load track here, serving together with a yard for handling rail freight traffic for the needs of the local Communal Cooperative "Samopomoc Chłopska".
    Currently, the railway is used as an element of a tourist route, with particular emphasis on Boguszyce as a place of exceptional historical and educational value.

Monuments in the register

According to the register of monuments kept by the NID, the following objects are entered on the list of monuments:

  • Complex of the parish church of st. Stanislaus:
    • church, wooden, 1558, registered number: 11/6 from May 6, 1946, 238 / XI-6 from April 11, 1960 and 258 from December 27, 1967
    • belfry, wooden, 18th century, reg.No .: 762 from December 27, 1967
    • church cemetery, reg.no .: 991 / A from 1.03.1995
    • four chapels at the corners of the fence, 19th century

Folklore

It is also a place of active folklore activity - "Band Singers from Boguszyc", which has been awarded many times at national festivals, incl. in Bukowsko and Bukowina Tatrzańska and Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula River.

Near

2 km north of Boguszyce the village Soszyce. On the left side of the road, one of the most beautiful roadside shrines from the 18th century. It has the shape of a tent roof supported by 4 poles, a wooden figure of St. Onuphrius.

External links

Geographical Coordinates


parafiaboguszyce.pl - website of the parish p.w. st. Stanisław, Bishop and Martyr in Boguszyce