From the open-air museum in Sidzina, we turn north and take the county road through Sidzina and Bystra Podhalańska, where at the road junction (about 8 km) we turn right and after about 3 km we reach state road no. 28, which turns into 3 Maja Street. Once there, we turn right towards Jordanów. After about 1 km we pass a modern, large wooden inn ‘Przystań u Lipy’ on the right and we arrive, after a winding uphill stretch, at the market square in the town (a possible walk around the town is described on page 80). Then, take General Stanisław Maczek Street, which leads away from the square (to the left) and head towards Łętownia. On your way, after about 2 km, you pass the Blessed Father Piotr Dańkowski School Complex on your left, through which leads an internal road to the manor house in Chrobacze.
The manor house, built in the second half of the eighteenth century, has the character of a modest rural residence of the Old Polish manor house type. It is a one-storey timber-framed building, in the front part plastered, in the rest boarded, set on high foundations and covered with a Polish broken roof. A wooden porch is added to its front entrance. The building has been under restoration for several years and it is expected that after the restoration of the characteristic shingle roof and restoration of the rich decorations and details of the porch, it will soon be possible to see it in its full glory. Behind the manor house a part of the landscape park with old trees has been preserved.
Following the BGRWA route further along the county road we arrive in Łętownia. In the centre of the village there is a wooden church of St. Simon and St. Jude.
CHURCH OF ST. SIMON AND ST. JUDE
The church was erected in the years 1760-65 on the site of a wooden church from the 16th century, which had stood there until then. As it was too small for the locals, it was pulled down and transported to neighbouring Krzeczów, where it can still be seen today. In the years 1776-1779 the Łętownia church was partly rebuilt and enlarged, and is now counted among the largest timber-framed churches in southern Poland. It is a single-nave oriented building with two side chapels (St. Valentine to the north and Our Lady of Łętów to the south) and a massive tetrahedral tower of pole construction, topped with a spherical cupola with a lantern with several steps. At the tower were added buttresses. The roof of the church is covered with shingles, and the walls are boarded vertically. In the Rococo main altar there is a miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as Our Lady of Łętów, and in its top there is a painting of Our Lady of the Scapular. The slider painting depicts The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. In addition to the main church there are 6 altars: two on the sides and four in the chapels. The interior also features Rococo polychrome, mainly with floral motives, a pulpit from around 1779, a baptismal font, a Baroque organ case from the second half of the 17th century, two similarly dated confessionals, and a rood beam under the church vault with a crucifix and figures of the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist and St. Mary Magdalene carved in boards. Valuable furnishings of the church are 16th and 18th century paintings and original, painted on canvas Stations of the Cross (18th century).
Address: 34-424 Łętownia 99
Car park: open to the public, next to the building
Mass times:
Weekdays: 6.30 AM, 7:00 AM, on Wednesdays and Fridays and on the first Saturdays also at 5:00 PM (in the summer time 6:00 PM). Sunday: 6:30 AM, 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 4:00 PM
GPS:
N49 41.828 (49.697133)
E19 52.338 (19.872300)