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The Church of St. James the Greater was built in a style combining Gothic and Renaissance features in the second half of the 17th century – during the period when Debrzyca belonged to the Commandery of the Knights Hospitaller in Grobniki. It stood on the site where an earlier temple existed, mentioned in sources from the beginning of the 15th century. The initiator of the construction was the Hospitaller commander Adam Wilhelm Count von Wratislaw. The modern structure is the result of reconstruction at the end of the 18th century, when the church was extended towards the east. Inside the temple, one can see the main altar with a painting depicting the baptism of the Pharisee Josiah, who shared a martyr's death with James the Greater, the patron of the church in Debrzyca, placing his head under the executioner's sword. The work painted by Hieronymus Richter from Kłodzko dates from the end of the 19th century. In the porch of the church stands a Baroque, stone statue of St. John of Nepomuk, called the wanderer by the locals. In the past, the figure was located in the church cemetery, and then in a niche of the wall surrounding the necropolis. The former Hospitaller church is located on the Knights Hospitaller Trail in the Głubczyce Land. Practical information: The church can be visited before or after mass. Free admission. Sightseeing time: 1 hour. Parking spaces on Kościuszki Street.