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Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland

Poland
Date of Inscription: 2003
Criteria: (iii)(iv)
Core zone: 8.26 ha
Buffer zone: 242.199997 ha
Gorlice, Nowy Targ, and Bochnia counties, Voivodship of Lesser Poland (Malopolskie); Brzozów County, Subcarpathian (Podkarpackie) Voivodship
N49 45 0 E21 13 60
Ref: 1053rev

Brief Description

The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic culture. Built using the horizontal log technique, common in eastern and northern Europe since the Middle Ages, these churches were sponsored by noble families and became status symbols. They offered an alternative to the stone structures erected in urban centres.