Boleścin: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

A specific historical landmark in Boleścin is the filial church of St. Joseph the Bridegroom. You can rent a holiday apartment in Boleścin. The church dates from 1911 and incorporates epitaphs and gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries, presumably from an earlier church at this site. The churchyard wall was built during the reconstruction of the present-day church and contains epitaph slabs from the predecessor building; local documentation records the church and the epitaphs on the church wall in Boleścin. The church has a gabled roof and an octagonal roof turret dating from 1520; it was renovated in 1966. The village also has a palace dating from the 18th century or the transition from the 18th to the 19th century, with a mansard roof, a courtyard projection and a heraldic cartouche on the west façade. The palace is described as visible from the outside. This is particularly suited to an interest in visible historical architectural details.

Culture and Surroundings

In the area surrounding Boleścin are Panków Renaissance-Baroque Castle Ruins and Grodno Zagórze Śl – Castle Museum. Also in the surrounding area are Choina, Tępadła Pass – Ślęża Massif 384 m above sea level, Ślęża – 718 m above sea level3 and Ślęża. This suits an interest in historic buildings in the surrounding area.

In the wider regional surroundings of Boleścin are Książ – 13th-century fortified castle and Sobótka Górka Castle.

Local heritage documentation lists a former court inn, a manor house and a war memorial in Boleścin.

Boleścin was first mentioned in 1193; the village developed along an old north–south road and was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War before being rebuilt later.

Other village pages in the directory: Jawor, Bystrzyca Górna, Schweidnitz, Żarów, Modliszów, Świebodzice, Striegau, Lubachow.

To the overarching travel overview: Åšwidnicki.