Sucha Beskidzka Things to Do

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2005 was the year in which Sucha Beskidzka celebrated 600 years of its history. All year there were events held... A fountain was built to commemorate the celebtarions... This is the only fountain in Sucha. There is a information sigh about the event and on the top there is a crest od the town Sucha Beskidzka - a horse. It looks really nice and fits the atmosphere of the town.:)

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The new church, whose corpus is the dominant element of the complex, was constructed in the years 1897 - 1908 and was joined to the historic complex by a single-storey passage in which space was set aside for the sacristy. The Branickis took upon themselves the financial burden of building the new church as well as maintaining both buildings.

The church in Sucha is one of the most interesting works of Teofil Talowski. The monumental construction with its style of beautiful eclecticism recalls the monumental architecture of the Middle Ages using elements of both Gothic and Romanesque style.

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The old church is a small, single-aisle structure, whose corpus reflects Gothic, tradition, with Renaissance and Baroque details. A small sacristy is found near the presbitery, and in about the middle of the XVIIth century a small chapel was added. The semi-circular addition which houses the stairs leading to the choir loft, and the octagonal, tin covered ave-bell tower are from a slightly later period.

The building is supported by buttresses. On one of them, placed in the center of the western wall, is the Korczak coat-of-arms. It is worth looking at some of the other elements of the oldest church equipment and decorations. Among them are fragments of wall-painting and the painting depicting the Ascension of the Virgin Mary on the vault of the presbitery and the sgraffito frieze on its walls. Beneath the presbitery is the Komorowski crypt. The entrance to the vaulted crypt ends with a stone plate with the coats-of-arms and names of Piotr Komorowski and his second wife, Marianna nee Bninska. The tombstone of Zofia Wojtalowska and the black marble tombstone of Miko³aj Komorowski are from this same period (1640s).

Of the elements of the church's interior remaining to this day, the most noteworthy are the choir loft supported by four Ionian columns (XVIIth century) and the altars: the high altar and six side altars, late-Baroque and Rococo remaining from the rich decorations donated by the Wielopolskis, the landlords of Sucha after the Komorowskis. The church is connected to the cloister by an arched passageway on whose outer, northern wall two Renaissance majolica tiles can be seen.

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Three chapels remain today from the original foundation, of which the most noteworthy is the one modernized in 1818. It was then that the late-Renaissance chapel was rebuilt with a wooden upper part and began to serve as a belfry. In the lower, stone part the crypt of the Wielopolskis and Branickis was established (in photos).

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The cloister, presently the rectory, is a rectangular, two-storey, stone building with a cellar, covered with a high hip roof.

The main entrance to the building (earlier the cloister gate) leads to a centrally located entrance hall, from which a staircase leads to the first floor. Here a few rooms still have their beam-ceilings. The simple stone doorways and window frames are a reminder of the late-Renaissance architecture, as is the balcony (rebuilt several times) on the southern elevation.

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There are two churches (the old and new one) and four chapels in the complex. The old monastery is now a presbytery. The old church was built thanks to the former owner of Sucha - Piotr Komorowski in 1613 - 1614. The consecration was made in 1624 by bishop Tomasz Oborski.

The roof of the church is in gotic and the interior in renaissance style. The old and new church were connected by the tunel where a sacristy is located. The new church was designed by Teodor Talowski and built in 1897 - 1908.

In 1614 work was completed on the church founded by the landlord of Sucha Piotr Komorowski and his wife Katarzyna nee Przerebska. After its consecration (1624) the founder brought the Lateran regular canons from the Corpus Christi church in Kazimierz in Cracow. A cloister was built for them in the years 1624 - 1630 (presently the rectory) as well as seven chapels. A section of the area enclosed by the seven symetrically placed chapels was set aside as a cemetery (moved to the present location in 1836). The entire complex was surrounded by a stone wall with small towers, loop-holes and gates. This original XVIIth century composition of the chuch-cloister complex remains in large part to this day.

The palace was built of building stone found locally and brick. Its three wings surround a rectangular courtyard. The two-storey southern wing is closed off from the east by two towers with key loopholes along the line of the attic. The western wing, also two-storeyed, is closed off on the park side by a tower added to the original corpus in 1708. On the opposite side there is a four-sided clock tower, to which the northern, one-storey wing is attached, covered with a pent-roof (the rooms in this wing had a service function). Both two-storey wings open onto the courtyard through a beautiful two-condignation arched loggia, characteristic for Renaissance residences (Wawel). Belvederes were designed for the corners created by the arcades, which proved not only of aesthetic, but also functional value for movement.

On the first floor of the clock tower there is a chapel which Piotr Komorowski dedicated to his patron saint. Fragments remain of the original wall painting from the early XVIIth century showing a series of scenes in rectangular borders - the mysteries of the Holy Mass according to the life of the Lord Jesus. Another type of decorative painting in the chapel are quarters with a candelabre ornament motif and garlands of fruit and flowers. On the ground floor of the clock tower prison cells were once found. The most representative and at the same time the most impressive chamber in the palace ( there are about 100 rooms in the whole palace) is found on the first floor of the western wing. The fireplace is decorated in a rich mannerist style (leaf and flower ornaments, conchas, mascarons). It is one of the most interesting examples of this type of ornamentation in Poland.

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The park was probably founded in XVI century and is connected with a purchase of Sucha by Kasper Castiglione. About 1708 Anna Konstancja Lubomirska rebuilt the castle together with its park. The park still has its old character as lanes in the park have XIX century style.

The castle's park is the only park in the town but it is very beautiful! During the summer it is full of people.