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The wooden church of St. Valentine in Dobrodzień [Guttentag] was established in 1630 on the site of an earlier temple destroyed during the Thirty Years' War. The current log-structure building was erected on a stone foundation. The front features a tower covered with a tented roof and topped with a bulbous helm. Both the roof and the church's elevation are covered with wooden shingles. The temple has a single-nave layout, and its presbytery is closed on three sides, with a sacristy adjoining it. The interior preserves Baroque furnishings, including the polychrome and gilded main altar dedicated to St. Valentine, funded in 1644 by Adam Wilhelm Dobrodzieński. Also noteworthy are the 19th-century organ case and the altar crucifix. The temple has been renovated multiple times – restoration was particularly necessary after World War II, when the church was damaged during the shelling of the town by Soviet troops. The Church of St. Valentine is also one of the few monuments that miraculously survived the great fire of Dobrodzień in 1846.
