Kraszewo

Kraszewo – Village. Former settlement site, the remnant of which is a mound – probably the tomb of a tribal chief from the 10th century. p.n.e., and a burial ground from the turn of the ancient and modern eras (late / late / late Roman and early Roman period). They are located in the north-east. parts of the village.

Parish Church. pw. Holy Trinity and St.. Lawrence built in the 16th century. (brick: north chapel, sacristy and presbytery) and supplemented with a wooden nave in the 17th century. after the destruction of the brick one, gothic during the Swedish wars. Outside the chapel, cannonballs are embedded in the walls, and on the outer wall of the sacristy there are remains of a sundial from the 17th century. and subtitles from 1646 r. Single-nave interior, mainly baroque furnishings from the 18th century., m.in. main altar with a painting of the Holy Trinity, a pulpit carved in one trunk of a linden tree, supported by the figure of an angel, wooden tombstone of Jan Franciszek Kucharski, Zaremba coat of arms (d. w 1755 r.), with accurately depicted elements of the Polish noble's costume and an old Polish inscription (far from modern spelling rules). It is the only example of a wooden figural tombstone carved from one huge log in Northern Mazovia. Next to it, there is a wooden belfry from the 17th and 18th centuries., pole construction, partially timbered, covered with a rafter roof with shingle. Clearances are framed in the upper part of the walls. In the church cemetery there is a grave of Bruno Kiciński (see Ojrzeń) and his daughter Helen (d. 1853), made of sandstone with the Rogal coat of arms placed on the pedestal.

In the Roman Catholic cemetery there is a grave of soldiers who died in 1920 r., with a stone obelisk erected in 1937 r.

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