Castle Chapel in Lubin

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The Castle Chapel in Lubin is located on Mikołaj Pruzio Street on the Castle Hill in Lubin, Poland. The chapel is the only element left from the medieval castle buildings (it originally stood next to the entrance gate in the castle courtyard). The date in the tympanum - 1349 - determines the time of construction.

It had 3 altars in the 14th century. The chapel was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, rebuilt in 18th century and fell into ruins again. After reconstruction in the middle of the 19th century it served Catholics until 1908, then it housed a diocesan library.

In 1945 it was set on fire. For many years after the war the building remained devastated. In the end of the 1970s the sanctuary was renovated.

The chapel was initially managed by the Office of Artistic Exhibitions in Legnica. After the renovation the building was adapted as the Castle Gallery in 1990. In 2005-2009 further renovation works were carried out.

The building (on the plan of 13.5 x 8.1 m, 1.2 m thick walls) may have had no separate presbytery. It was a structure with a flat roof and the main entrance from the north. The Baroque reconstruction lengthened the chapel and the presbytery from the south by two...