
Kościół pw. Świętej Jadwigi, Wrocław
Kościół pw. Świętej Jadwigi is the small Catholic church on Jerzmanowska Street in Jerzmanowo, dedicated to Saint Hedwig of Silesia. Its story begins in 1316, when a church in the village then called Gezmanouo first enters the written record.
The oldest surviving part was originally a fourteenth-century Gothic chancel—a medieval form built around pointed arches. Before 1483, builders added the tower and sacristy; during the following century, they created a porch that served as a baptistery and probably raised the tower as well. The building changed confessions in the Reformation era: Evangelicals took it over in 1529, and Catholics regained it in 1654.
Repairs continued across the centuries, including a new sacristy in 1706 and work on the fittings in 1852. In 1896, the Świdnica organ builders Schlag und Söhne installed an eight-stop mechanical-pneumatic organ here. The churchyard is also protected as a historic monument, enclosed by a wall. Today this is the auxiliary church for the nearby nineteenth-century parish church of Our Lady Queen of Poland, so this compact medieval building remains part of an active local parish.



