Szlaki województw śląskiego i opolskiego

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Bąków is the oldest wooden pre-Reformation church in the Kluczbork area. The log structure temple with a tower was built at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries in the Late Gothic style. Inside, there are 16th-century wall polychromes depicting scenes of the Annunciation, Ascension, and Pentecost. Unique is the main altar of the church, in which there is a nearly three-meter, oldest in Silesia Gothic triptych from the second half of the 14th century depicting the Coronation of the Virgin Mary. It was probably moved to the church in 1810, after the secularization of the Minorite order in Opole. Below the triptych is a painting of the Last Supper painted on board with coat of arms cartouches of von Seidlitz and von Stertz families. On the sides of the altar, there are six panels with pairs of apostles, and on its wings eighteen saints in three rows. The Late Renaissance baptismal font with a bowl supported on the figure of an angel dates from the end of the 17th century, and the wooden epitaph of Elisabeth von Frankenberg with a votive painting and an inscription in Polish was made at the end of the 17th century. In the 17th century, there was a bell in the church, which during World War II was taken to the Hamburg bell depot and is currently located in the evangelical church in Fulda, Germany. Practical information: No possibility of sightseeing. Parking along the road.