Szlaki województw śląskiego i opolskiego

The Church of All Saints, originally the parish church of St. James the Greater, today serves as a funeral chapel and belongs to the most precious sacral monuments of the region. The first temple, probably wooden, was built in the second half of the 12th or the beginning of the 13th century, shortly after the arrival of the first Franconian colonists in Jemielnica [Himmelwitz]. A brick Gothic church was erected in the 14th century; the cross-ribbed vault in the presbytery has survived from this period. Destroyed during the Hussite raids in 1428 or 1430, it was rebuilt and reconsecrated at the end of the 15th century. After further destruction during the Thirty Years' War, it was rebuilt in 1655. After 1812, when the parish was moved to the monastery church, this temple became a cemetery church. It is an oriented, stone early Gothic structure. The interior hides the rich history of the temple. Traces of Romanesque-Gothic painting have been preserved, along with later overpaintings and layers. In the presbytery, on the gable wall and on the left side, there are valuable polychromes from the 15th and 16th centuries, discovered in 1936 and subsequently secured and restored in 2004.