Discover Nowe Brzesko

• The surviving salt warehouses at Plac Wolności date from the 18th century. The square was formerly called Plac Solny.
• In the mid-19th century, the warehouses were converted into barracks and stables for the Tsarist border guard. Today, they house rooms used by the GOK.
• On the same square stands a former Orthodox church building, built in 1908, which now houses the Miejsko-Gminne Centrum Kultury i Promocji.
• A figure of St Florian from the 18th century stands at Stary Rynek.
• Hebdów lies east of Nowe Brzesko. The Premonstratensian, or Norbertine, monastery there was founded in 1149.

At Plac Wolności, two distinct building histories can be considered side by side. The salt warehouses point to their original purpose and a later military conversion: the buildings became barracks and stables for the Tsarist border guard. Their current use as rooms for the GOK is another chapter in the history of the surviving warehouses.

The former Orthodox church building also connects the past with the present. It was built in 1908 and now houses the Miejsko-Gminne Centrum Kultury i Promocji. At Plac Wolności, a building with a succession of different uses stands alongside a building that once served a religious purpose and now houses a cultural centre. The figure of St Florian at Stary Rynek adds its own historical note: it also dates from the 18th century, but is located in a different square in Nowe Brzesko.

The historical traces range from the 18th-century salt warehouses and figure of St Florian, through the warehouses’ conversion in the mid-19th century, to the church building of 1908. These dates bring different chapters of the town’s history to life without reducing the buildings to the same period or function. This offers a clear cultural focus for your travel plans: you can distinguish older buildings, later changes of use, and a religious building from the early 20th century.

Hebdów broadens the picture beyond the buildings in Nowe Brzesko. The monastery there was founded in 1149, and its foundation established the town’s reputation. The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saints Peter and Paul dates from the first half of the 13th century. Its surviving elements include lower levels, crypts, and parts of the main structure dating from the mid-13th and early 14th centuries. The naves, presbytery, and furnishings date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

A figure of the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child, dating from the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, is also in Hebdów. Together with the church’s different construction phases and the founding of the monastery, it offers a different perspective on time than the buildings in the squares of Nowe Brzesko. This makes it possible to place the trip’s cultural focus in context through specific dates and building elements, rather than assigning all historical evidence to a single period.

Discover more destinations: Gruszów, Kuchary.

Where are the former salt warehouses located?

They stand at Plac Wolności, formerly called Plac Solny. The surviving warehouses date from the 18th century and were converted into barracks and stables in the mid-19th century.

What construction dates are documented for the church in Hebdów?

The church dates from the first half of the 13th century. Parts of its main structure date from the mid-13th and early 14th centuries; the naves, presbytery, and furnishings date from the 17th and 18th centuries.

What in Nowe Brzesko recalls the 18th century?

The surviving salt warehouses at Plac Wolności date from that century. A figure of St Florian from the 18th century also stands at Stary Rynek.

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