Highgarden

Franciscan Church and Monastery, ul. monastery. Church of. Our Lady of the Angels, in years 1805-1945 Protestant, built in 1408 r., expanded (adding a nave after burning the wooden one) in years 1661-75, brick, late gothic-baroque, single-nave with a separate presbytery. Composed of late gothic: chancel and adjoining to it from the south chapel. st. Anna, made of brick and a baroque brick and plastered nave. The chancel is clasped at the corners with double buttresses, and from the east it is topped with a stepped gable, five-fold, fragmented angular pillars transforming into pinnacles, between which there are wimpergs with circular recesses (formerly slides) and stacked reflectors. Facade with a portal, located on the west, it is framed by pairs of Tuscan pilasters. In the eastern elevation. a triad consisting of a window on the axis and recesses on the sides. Inside the nave there is a barrel vault with lunettes, walls decorated with Tuscan pilasters. In the southern chapel. cross-ribbed vault built with the use of profiled brick. The main baroque altar from 2 half. 17th century. Baroque pulpit from the 18th century, with a hexagonal body and a sculpture of a pelican feeding its young. To the church from the north. adjoins the only surviving eastern. wing of the monastery (originally quadrilateral), brick, built after 1684 r., rebuilt at the beginning. XIX w. The monastery has a three-axis elevation, fragmented by pseudo-pilasters. A former pastor's house nearby, brick, built approx. half. XIX W.

Wooden bridge over the Vistula. Built by Polish and Soviet prisoners of war in 1944 r. in place and with the use of structural elements of the previous one, steel bridge built between 1916-17, and destroyed in 1939 r. The bridge was completely built (pillars, girders, outbreaks, spans) from wood from the Kampinos Forest. It was partially destroyed during the hostilities in January 1945 r. It was rebuilt after the war, but due to the material of construction, it was damaged many times as a result of the pressure of ice floes or floods. In years 1960-67 Wooden girders were replaced with steel ones. The bridge has 1285 m in length (along with the bridge over the Bzura river 2000 m) and consists of 56 span lengths 21,3 m and a steel shipping span with a length of 42 m. In the vicinity of the bridge, to the south. Vistula bank, the final station of the narrow-gauge railway line from Sochaczew (launched in the 1920s., suspended in 1985 r.). On the Vistula, below the wooden one, a new bridge is being built.

Monument with a granite bust of Jan Śniadecki (1756— -1830) – maths, astronomer and philosopher, patron of the school (ul. Independence 11 A).

The monument at the site of the Jewish cemetery at ul. Independence. It is dedicated to Jews from Wyszogród – victims of World War II. The area around the monument was cleared in 1989 r. Cemetery at ul. Independence. Mass grave 15 Polish soldiers killed in September 1939 r., the grave of priest Michał Serafin murdered by the Germans in Płock in 1942 r., the grave of Piotr and Janina Kopański murdered during World War II by the Germans in the Pomiechówek camp – with full-form, life-size sculptures of the dead.

Wooden windmill paltrak from the middle of the. XIX w. (ul. You will 63).

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