The county seat is located approx. 50 km north-east of Poznań, on the road to Toruń.
The Gothic Holy Trinity Church was built c. 1420-1430 and rebuilt after a fire in 1613. The church has a single nave with a closed multilateral presbytery and a Gothic tower with a baroque cupola from 1687. The Literary Brotherhood Chapel was built on to the nave from the south in 1611. This society was formed in 1594 with the aim of teaching reading and writing. Its statute obliged its members to teach three men or one woman to read and write every year. The interior furnishing of the church mostly dates from the 18th century. The boat-shaped 1787 pulpit is especially interesting. The altar of the Literary Brotherhood chapel has a 17th-century painting of the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Gothic sacristy door is made of sheet iron and dates from the 1st half of the 15th century. The chimes in the clock tower strike the melody of Bogurodzica (Mother of God), Poland’s oldest religious song, at 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m. while the figure of St. Wojciech protrudes from the window below. The chimes and the figure were built in the jubilee year of 2000. The wall that encloses the church courtyard from the south has fragments of the medieval defensive walls. The course of the walls and the place where the Warsaw Gate used to be are marked out in ul. Warszawska (Warsaw St.), at the level of the church.
Address:
ul. Farna 6
62-200 Gniezno
Tel. +48 61 426 15 55
