Boilers - Kotłów

Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Boilers is a village of about 800 inhabitants, located in Greater Poland Voivodeship, In northern part Ostrzeszów poviat and in the north Mikstat commune. It is located about 20 km southeast of Ostrów Wielkopolski and is situated on the district road A mixture - Parczew.

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The village is situated on the edge The Ostrzeszowskie Hills - from 230 m above sea level the top of the hill offers a beautiful panorama of the valley Barycz and Wysockie hills. The village has been known since 1203.

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Interior of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

• One of the most valuable monuments in the region is the Romanesque Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This temple is mentioned, among others, by a historian Jan Długosz in the fifteenth century. He gives the year 1108 as the year of foundation. This date was engraved on a sandstone block that was embedded in the apse of the original Kotłowski church. He was to be the founder of the church Piotr Włost Dunin coat of arms. According to legend, he was supposed to build 7 churches for penance, and he built 70 of them, therefore he had to build 7 more for humility. Three of the latter were supposedly erected in Wysocku Wielki, Boilers and Chełmce - they are all located on the hills. The church survived unchanged until the beginning of the 17th century, in 1905 its expansion began - the apse and the choir were pulled down, two side aisles were added, and the main nave was extended so that the profile of the present church has the shape of a Roman cross. In 1923, however, the tower was significantly raised and a baroque helmet covered with copper sheets was placed on it. There are 3 bells on the tower: one from 1557, the second from 1816 and the third one taken at the time from Chynowa. From the earliest times, there was a burial cemetery near the Kotłowski church, it occupied the northern, eastern and southern slopes of the church hill. It was surrounded by a church wall at the foot of the mountain and at the top around the church. The western slope was protected against landslides by a wall up to 15 m high. The walls gave the church the character of a fortress, which is why the local people often called the church "Little Częstochowa". Source - website of the Mikstat commune[1].
• Right next to it it is worth paying attention to church cemetery magnificent linden trees grow around it - there is also a historic, roofed belfry. It has three bells, the oldest of which dates back to 1557.

Polish Catholic pro-cathedral

• Polish Catholic pro-cathedral - the second temple in the village is located in the ponliźu of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Over 30 years ago in the Kotłowo parish, covering the towns Biskupice Zabaryczne, Strzyżew and Boilers there was a split as a result of the death of the parish priest and the vicar who was to be his successor. The church authorities, despite the approval and pressure of some of the faithful, decided to send him to one of the parishes in Poznań. Most of the supporters of the vicar went with him to the Polish Catholic Church. As a result, about 2,000 parishioners decided to belong to the Polish Catholic parish, and the rest, that is, about 700, still remain with the Roman Catholic parish.

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