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Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland (Poland)

Document type
Decision
Reference number
8C.36
Date
Jun 29, 2003
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Status
Active
Subject
Wild species & ecosystems
Treaty
Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (Nov 23, 1972)
Meeting
27e session du Comité
Website
whc.unesco.org
Abstract

The World Heritage Committee,

1. Inscribes the Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland, Poland, on the World Heritage List on the basis of cultural criteria (iii) and (iv):

Criterion (iii): The wooden churches of Little Poland bear important testimony to medieval church building traditions, as these related to the liturgical and cult functions of the Roman Catholic Church in a relatively closed region in central Europe.

Criterion (iv): The churches are the most representative examples of surviving Gothic churches built in horizontal log technique, particularly impressive in their artistic and technical execution, and sponsored by noble families and rulers as symbols of social and political prestige.

The property consists of six separate churches:

Church

Town

Area (ha)

Buffer (ha)

Church of the Archangel Michael

Binarowa

1.80

40.4

Church of All Saints

Blizne

2.20

46.7

Church of the Archangel Michael

Dębno

0.14

64.0

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Archangel Michael

Haczów

1.30

38.2

Church of St Leonard

Lipnica Murowana

1.10

16.5

Church of St Philip and St James the Apostles

Sękowa

1.72

36.4

TOTAL

TOTAL

8.26

242.2