Leki Kościelne - Łęki Kościelne

Leki Kościelne - village in Poland, located in voivodeship of Lodz, in Kutno district, in Krzyżanów Commune.
Near the village, 1.5 km south-west. the A1 motorway runs.
The Ochnia River flows nearby, 0.5 km north of the village.

Geographic coordinates: 52 ° 09′53.1 "N 19 ° 30′03.2" E

In the register of monuments kept by National Heritage Institute there are the following objects:

  • in a small landscape park, a wooden baroque manor house built on an artificial hill in the second half of the In the 17th century by an unknown founder (registration number: 44-III-8 from March 24, 1947 and 22 from June 7, 1967) with a manor complex from the third quarter of the 18th century, in the 19th century.
  • park, (reg.No .: 391 of June 7, 1967)
  • parish church st. Mary Magdalene, wooden, carcass construction, baroque from 1775, oriented (i.e. the chancel facing east), three-nave with a polygonal chancel, topped on the west with a four-sided tower. Inside, there is a rich complex of 18th-century baroque altars (in the side altar there is a painting by E. Gerson depicting St. Joseph), a Baroque baptismal font and a late-Baroque organ built after 1775 (reg.No .: 42-III-6 from March 24, 1947 and 20 of June 7, 1967),
  • brick belfry from the middle of the XIX century, (reg.No .: 43-III-7 from March 24, 1947 and 21 from June 7, 1967)

The manor house, rebuilt several times, has preserved the stylish character of the baroque Polish manor house in an exceptionally good manner. That is why he often "played" in films, e.g. The Połaniecki family. A well-known cultural historian stayed in the manor house in the 1880s, Kazimierz Chłędowskiwhich he vividly described in his stay Diaries.

4 km to the east, the village of Orłów from 1384, formerly the town and seat of the poviat, there is a Gothic parish church from 1430 and a bell from 1547.
3 km to the southwest Młogoszyn, a village on the left bank of the Bzura river, known since 1390, with an interesting manor house from the beginning of the 20th century. Twentieth century in the park.

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