Szlaki województw śląskiego i opolskiego

The Church of St. Sebastian in Opole was built at the beginning of the 18th century as a thanksgiving votive offering after the plague prevailing in the city died out in 1680. The Baroque building was erected in the vicinity of the old city walls, on the site of the inn where the first victim of the epidemic died of the plague. St. Sebastian, martyr and patron of the sick, became the patron of the place. After secularization in 1810, a military field hospital for soldiers of the Russian and Prussian armies was set up in the church, and then a warehouse. In the 1930s, the presbytery was expanded and a porch was added. Inside the church, there are, among others, organs from the first, no longer existing Jesuit church made in the second half of the 18th century by Fryderyk Wilhelm Scheffler from Brzeg. Practical information: The monument is available every Sunday and public holiday at 3:00 PM. Free admission. Sightseeing time: 1 hour. Paid parking at 3 Stefanii Sempołowskiej Street.