Szlaki województw śląskiego i opolskiego

The wooden Church of St. Barbara in Strzelce, located in a Catholic cemetery at the fork of roads to Opole and Krapkowice, is dated to the early sixteenth century. Saint Barbara, patroness of miners and protector at the hour of death, enjoyed great veneration in the Middle Ages. In the seventeenth century, the church fell into disrepair. In 1680, the widow of a church councilor, Anna Bassa, undertook its reconstruction and maintenance. The sponsor of the work was Florian Weiser, who married Anna, and the carpenter Jan Brixi was the builder. The wooden temple was built in log-cabin construction (beams joined without nails), consisting of a nave (nearly square in plan) and a presbytery closed off on three sides. Above the nave rises a Baroque belfry tower with a lantern and a onion-shaped dome (c. 1720). The steeply pitched two-gabled roof of the church is covered with shingles. Inside there are a wooden music choir, a pulpit from the early seventeenth century, and fragments of an altar from the first half of the seventeenth century. The organ dates from the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The church has no bell tower. The Church of St. Barbara is an exceptional sacred monument and an example of historic wooden construction.