Discover 7 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Skoczów (Poland). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Dream Park Ochaby, Muzeum im. św. Jana Sarkandra, and City Hall. Also, be sure to include Kościół ewangelicko-augsburski Świętej Trójcy in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Skoczów (Silesian).
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Dream Park Ochaby
Theme park, Game and entertainment center, Amusement park
Address: ul. Hodowlana 2, 43-430 Ochaby Wielkie
Muzeum im. św. Jana Sarkandra
Jan Sarkander Museum in Skoczów - a parish museum in Skoczów dedicated to the figure of St. John Sarkander, whose cult began to spread in Silesia and Moravia after his martyrdom in 1620.
The institution is located in the historic house from the 17th century adjacent to the Skoczów town hall where John Sarkander was born in 1576. Since 1890 there has been a chapel dedicated to the saint. The idea of creating a museum was born already before the Second World War, but it was realized only in November 1994 when the first floor rooms were opened for exhibition purposes. For almost an entire year, the institution operated under the auspices of the Gustaw Morcinek Museum. It did not become independent until September 1, 1995. The permanent exhibition of the museum presents the history of life and cult of the saint. Collected objects come mainly from local churches - the parish church in Skoczów and St Bartholomew in Grodziec Śląski. There are also temporary exhibitions unrelated to the figure of the saint, where you can see contemporary paintings, graphics, sculptures and photographs. The main exhibits include old church prints, paintings and sculptures of saints, a seventeenth-century confessional, a tabernacle, and a bas-relief by Jan Walach (1936).
The museum is the first point of the Sarkander's Walking Trail marked out in 1993. - The route leads through the most important places connected with the life and cult of the saint (town hall with a painting of the saint, street named after him, church of the Invention of the Holy Cross - the place of his baptism, chapel on Kaplicowka hill, parish church, house of the Servant Sisters of Debica, who are the patrons of the saint, and others).
The museum is owned by Roman Catholic Parish of St. Peter and Paul in Skoczów
Address: Rynek 2, 43-430 Skoczów
City Hall
Skoczów Town Hall - historic town hall located in the western frontage of the Skoczów Market Square. Built in 1797 in the late baroque style, the tower was added in 1801. On the second floor, on the sides of the entrance to the balcony there are two medallions with relief coats of arms of Skoczów and Prince Albert Casimir of Cieszyn and the date 1797. At the base of the tower in the front there is an image of St. John Sarkander in an oval, profiled frame. In the building adjacent to the town hall, at number 2, there is the John Sarkander Museum in Skoczów.
Skoczów town hall was entered in the register of historic monuments on 29 January 1953.
Address: Fabryczna 5, 43-430 Skoczów
Kościół ewangelicko-augsburski Świętej Trójcy
Evangelical Church of the Holy Trinity - parish church of the Evangelical-Augsburg Parish in Skoczów.
Address: Zofii Kossak-Szatkowskiej 74, 43-430 Skoczów
Kościół pw. Świętych Apostołów Piotra i Pawła
Church of Saint Apostles Peter and Paul - a Roman Catholic parish church located in Skoczów.
Address: Ul. Kościelna 10, Skoczów
Kościół pw. Znalezienia Krzyża Świętego
Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross - a Roman Catholic parish church located in Skoczów.
Address: Szpitalna 2, 43-430 Skoczów
Kaplica Świętego Jana Sarkandra
Church