Sierpc poviat - poviat in Poland, in Mazowieckie voivodship, created in 1999 as part of an administrative reform. His seat is Sierpc.
Coat of arms of the Sierpc poviat
An administrative division
The poviat consists of 7 communes:
Municipal municipalities: Sierpc Rural municipalities: Gozdowo, Mochowo, Rościszewo, Sierpc, Szczutowo, Zawidz
Neighboring counties
Żuromin County, Płońsk County, Płock County, Lipno County (Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province), Rypiński County (Kujawsko-Pomorskie Province)
Worth seeing
in Sierpc
ArchitectureSights and tourist attractions, School church, Parish Church
gothic church of Saint Vitus, Modest and Krescencja, parish church, from the fourteenth or fifteenth century, baroque interior, altar with rococo elements, fragments of an earlier Romanesque temple, built on the ruins of a pagan temple, have been preserved in the walls of the church. the gothic church of the Holy Spirit from the end of the 15th century, inside the late-gothic polychrome from 1519-1529, the monastery complex on the hill formerly called Loret: the gothic church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the 16th century, inside a Gothic sculpture of the Mother of God with the Child from the 14th century in the Neo-Romanesque the main altar. baroque Benedictine monastery from the beginning of the In the 18th century, it is made of brick with a chapel with a baroque interior. brick baroque belfry from the end of the 18th century post-evangelical church of St. Stanisław Kostka, from 1913, commonly known as the school church, built in the neo-Gothic style, now a significantly rebuilt wooden church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from 1744, moved from the village of Drążdżewo to the open-air museum in Sierpc in 2007, ruins of the church of st. Cross from the 14th century. Jewish cemetery, classicist town hall from 1841, now the seat of the Mazovian Countryside Museum, wooden house of the Kasztelanka from the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries with a characteristic broken roof of the church from the end of the 19th century, today devoid of domes and significantly rebuilt; currently the seat of the court of the Museum of the Mazovian Countryside - an open-air museum on the outskirts of the city brick city shambles from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ludwik Bytner (died 1848), Wojciech Chrzanowski (died 1848) and many others.