Tychy Things to Do

There are a lot of amazing, modern sculptures inside St. Christopher Church.

By the way St. Christopher is a patron of drivers and city of Tychy. Hmm... Tychy is always called capitol of Polish automobile industry.

There are many foreign and Polish companies and factories located in fast growing Tychy:
- FIAT - Italian company which has a huge, modern factory in Tychy (they produce small Fiat Seicento, Fiat Punto and others)
- ISUZU - Japan's Isuzu Motors (49% belongs to GM) opened a $200 million diesel engine plant in 1999 (300,000 diesel engines annually - for your Isuzu, Opel, Renault or Saab)
- DELPHI - which produces accesories for your Toyota cars for example,
- many, many more like V.A.B, IEPER, MANULI, LEAR, COOPER STANDARD, GELLWE, PULVERIT, BARON, ALUPOL, EKOLAND, ROSA, TRAS, CELT.

Haha, do you have something from Tychy in your car?

There are a lot of amazing, modern sculptures inside St. Christopher Church. Look at the Holy Cross on my picture.

This sculpture shows the 13th scene from so called Way of the Cross in Roman catholic religion: Jesus Christ body is taken down from the cross.

Way of the Cross? What's that?
It is also called Stations of the Cross, Via Crucis, and Via Dolorosa. These names are used to signify either a series of pictures or tableaux (or sculptures like in the church in Tychy) representing certain scenes in the Passion of Christ, each corresponding to a particular incident, or the special form of devotion connected with such representations. There are 14 Stations of the Cross.

There are a lot of amazing, modern sculptures inside St. Christopher Church. Look at the High Altar on my picture.

Ther is a table made of rock/stone when the priests stand making ceremony - holy mass in the middle of a huge interior of the church. Above there is a large sculpture of Jusus Christ with hands put in shape of cross.

Riding a bicycle around Paprocany Lake (Jezioro paprocanskie). It takes 35-60 min depends on your energy :-).

It is planned (by Tychy self-government) to modernise and expand the existing bicycle tracks around the lake in the vicinity of Paprocany and Promnice.
Note: there are swamps in some places, better not to leave the bicycle track.

There are a lot of amazing, modern sculptures inside St. Christopher Church. Look at the unique, decorative and huge... candlestick. The human statues are of larger size than natural human beeings even Scandinavians (Vikings :-).

Have you ever seen so big candle? Where could I buy them?:-)

St. Christopher Church (Kosciol sw. Krzysztofa) was built in 1983-1986. It is located near large districtional hospital and is one more example of modern architecture in Tychy.

It looks very interesting either from the outside and inside. Amazing, impressive, huge interior full of modern sculptures. Add huge, modern organ inside and imagine its sounds!

the church is located close to Highway 1 (Warsaw - Wien), has quite large and always free parking lot and it's easy to find by drivers who don't know Tychy. So, it maybe good meeting place as well hehe.

The figure of St. John Nepomucen is located next to St. Maria Magdalena Church.

John Nepomucen was born at Nepomuk, Bohemia (Czech), 1340; studied, lived and died in Prague in 1393; canonized in 1729.
He became involved in a dispute between Czech King Wenceslaus IV and the archbishop of Prague. He supported the archbishop. At a meeting with John and other clerics, Wenceslaus flew into a rage, tortured them so that John was seriously injured, and then had him murdered and thrown into the Moldau River at Prague.

There are a lot of such sculptures around Poland called "nepomuceny". You can find them in Prague, Czech as well - on Karl Bridge for example.

Look at stained-glass window inside St. Maria Magdalena Roman catholic church.

Moving from the catacombs, the earliest Christians worshiped in their homes; then, when they became politically secure enough, the Christians built churches. The first churches housed the relics of saints. Architecturally, they were based on the basilica, the Roman law court. The cruciform floor plan developed from the Byzantine square floor plan with a dome added.

European kings and bishops sent to Jerusalem and the east for holy relics. Their emissaries brought back small works of art such as cloisonne , damascene and carved ivory set with jewels and precious glass. Oriental and African craftsmen and glassmakers found their way to Europe as early as the third century.