Szlaki województw śląskiego i opolskiego

Jemielnica is a village located in the Strzelce district. It is the seat of the Jemielnica municipality. The Polish name of the town comes from the Old Polish word jemiel, which means mistletoe. The name of the village appears for the first time in sources written in Latin from the second half of the 15th century. In the village, there is an outcrop of the main Middle Triassic limestones (middle muschelkalk) rich in fossils of green algae. These limestones are characteristic of large areas in Opole Silesia and are called Jemielnica beds. In Jemielnica, the historical spatial layout of the village has been preserved, as well as the cemetery church of All Saints with a Renaissance-Baroque interior and Gothic frescoes from the 15th century, the grave of Silesian insurgents in the Catholic cemetery, the monument on the mass grave of the soldiers of the Grande Armée, the monument to the residents who fell in World War I, and also the Cistercian monastery complex with the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary featuring a Baroque decor, the monastery building currently serving as a presbytery, a small house with a granary from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, and a mill.