Attractions and Places To See around Kutno - Top 17

getting out of the platforms a bit like in the Łowicz style

The station and the train station are first class. Access to the platforms is via a tunnel. Many elements are made of Corten steel. They really aren't "eye-popping" anymore!

Restored palace, which houses a museum. Built in 1750 on the orders of King Augustus III.

The parish in Sobota was established at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. After the fire of the first wooden church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, in 1518 the castellan of Łęczyca Tomasz Sobocki founded the current one, dedicated to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, St. Anne and St. Isidore, which is reminded by the boulder in the external wall of the nave, above the window. The building fortunately survived the wars and has survived in an unchanged form to this day. From the source records it is known that in the 16th century in Sobota there was a hospital for the poor with its own church (hospital provostry), for which in 1544 the Archbishop Metropolitan of Gniezno and Bishop of Kraków Piotr Gamrat, Primate of Poland, donated the tithes of the archbishop's table in Żbików. This provostry still existed in the mid-18th century. The parish church is a defensive structure made of brick and stone. The buttresses-clad body includes a nave with a porch and a chancel with an annex, which houses the sacristy and the treasury. The building is decorated with wavy gables from the east and west. There is a modest portal in the western wall. The most characteristic element of the church, attesting to its defensive nature, is a small, round tower on the south, decorated with an arcade frieze and having gun slots. Inside, there are stairs leading to the attic. The interior of the church is interesting, with star vaults. The walls are decorated with polychromes from 1905-1907 by Apoloniusz Kędzierski and from 1936 by prof. Władysław Drapiewski, in which the sixteenth-century Renaissance sandstone tombstones of local owners were set: Tomasz and Jakub Sobocki, castellans of Łęczyca (two-story) and Tomasz Sobocki, chancellor of King Sigismund the Old, as well as epitaph tablets and the classicist tombstone of Cyprian Zawisza Czarny and his wife Maria (from the nineteenth century). The famous Artur Zawisza Czarny came from this family.

The manor house in Orenice was probably built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a building made of larch wood, boarded from the outside and reed from the inside. Its walls and ceiling are plastered. Once the manor house was covered with a shingle roof, currently with roofing felt. From the front, the manor house is decorated with a porch with two columns, topped with a gable. The building is surrounded by the remains of the manor park. The farm buildings of the farm have also been preserved. It currently belongs to a private person and has been renovated, and can be viewed from behind the fence.

The original parish church of St. Martin mentioned in 1399 was made of wood. The brick church in the Gothic style was built in the first half of the 15th century, and its construction was started before 1425 by Mikołaj Oporowski, the voivode of Łęczyca. The construction was completed by his sons Władysław Oporowski, after taking over the family estate in 1428, Władysław was the bishop of Włocławek from 1434, later the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland, and Piotr Oporowski - the voivode of Łęczyca. The single-nave church with an unseparated presbytery and a burial crypt was built on the plan of an elongated rectangle, with a porch on the southern side. The interior was covered with a wooden ceiling. The modest decoration of the external elevations consisted of white plastered pointed arch panels, a brick frieze made of squared timber crowning the walls of the nave and rhombuses made of zendrówka bricks. The western elevation was most likely crowned with a decorative gable, as evidenced by two half-peaks preserved under the roof by the tower. In 1453, the Oporowskis - Władysław and Piotr donated the church to the Order of St. Paul the First Hermit, the rule of St. Augustine. The motive was the desire to honor the memory of Krystyna and Mikołaj Oporowski's parents, buried in the church's basement. The church building is connected to the monastery building.

It is a wooden larch church with a log structure, covered with a gable roof covered with shingles, with a cupola over the porch. On the roof there is a turret with a bell tower. The temple is oriented, single-nave, with a narrower and lower chancel, built on a rectangular plan. A brick sacristy adjoins the church. The main altar contains the oldest monument, a late Gothic sculpture of the Virgin Mary with Child, from the beginning of the 15th century, covered by a painting of St. Joseph from the second half of the 18th century. In the two side altars there are paintings from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, depicting: the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Barbara. Also noteworthy are the 18th-century baptismal font and stoup, the pulpit, Stations of the Cross from the end of the 19th century, a neo-Baroque cross from the 19th century, a neo-Gothic monstrance from the end of the 19th century and a neo-Baroque chalice from 1885. In front of the entrance to the church there is a four-sided wooden bell tower from the 18th century.

Wooden church of Our Lady of Grace from 1521, log construction, boarded. Inside there are, among others: a Gothic crucifix from the 15th century, a Rococo crucifix from the 18th century, two processional paintings and two chasubles from the end of the 18th century. The former name of the village was Ciechosławice and the local residents use it rather to describe this place. The reason for building the church was the frequent flooding of the Bzura River, which prevented the faithful from participating in the services held in the church in Piątek.