Kościół pw. Świętych Jakuba i Krzysztofa, Wrocław

The Church of Saints James and Christopher is Psie Pole’s Roman Catholic parish church, first documented in 1206. Destroyed repeatedly by war, fire, lightning, collapse, and demolition during the 1945 siege of Wrocław, it was rebuilt in 1958–1959. Its interior preserves fifteenth-century sacred furnishings.

The Church of Saints James and Christopher is the Roman Catholic parish church of Psie Pole, dedicated in part to Saint Christopher. Its story reaches back to 1206, when a church here first appears in the record. The building was destroyed in 1442 amid the Hussite wars, after Psie Pole was plundered, and a replacement rose soon afterwards.

Parts of that later medieval nave still survive in the present fabric. The church has endured an extraordinary sequence of disasters. Fire consumed it, tower included, in 1759; lightning badly damaged it twenty years later; then its fifteenth-century chancel collapsed in 1892.

A larger eastward extension followed in 1893, designed by Joseph Ebers in Neo-Gothic, a nineteenth-century return to medieval Gothic forms. In February 1945, during the siege of Wrocław, German troops blew up the church. The ruins were cleared between 1947 and 1950, and the church was rebuilt in 1958 and 1959.

Notice the buttresses bracing the exterior walls. Inside, the survival story becomes tangible: a fifteenth-century Madonna and Child, a stone sacramentary, and a baptismal font all remain. The newer altar, consecrated in 1981, contains relics of Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych and Saint Charles Lwanga.