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A historic religious building built under the agreements of the Westphalian Treaty concluded in 1648 and ending the Thirty Years' War. It belongs to the Świdnik parish of the Evangelical Church of Augsburg in Poland. The Świdnik Church of Peace was one of the three Churches of Peace after the facilities in Głogów and Jawor, for which Emperor Ferdinand III authorized the construction, in the hereditary principalities of the Habsburgs in Silesia. In these principalities, all churches built by Catholics and taken over by Protestants returned to the Catholic Church. In the principalities ruled by the Silesian Piasts, mostly Evangelicals, all churches could remain Protestant. The Church of Peace was built by Silesian evangelicals - thanks to the intercession of the Swedish monarchy, the Catholic emperor (Roman and King of Germany) Ferdinand, for the sake of peace, allowed his Catholic country to build three Protestant temples in Silesia. It was supposed to be a gesture of tolerance,... wyświetl cały opis

A historic religious building built under the agreements of the Westphalian Treaty concluded in 1648 and ending the Thirty Years' War. It belongs to the Świdnik parish of the Evangelical Church of Augsburg in Poland. The Świdnik Church of Peace was one of the three Churches of Peace after the facilities in Głogów and Jawor, for which Emperor Ferdinand III authorized the construction, in the hereditary principalities of the Habsburgs in Silesia. In these principalities, all churches built by Catholics and taken over by Protestants returned to the Catholic Church. In the principalities ruled by the Silesian Piasts, mostly Evangelicals, all churches could remain Protestant. The Church of Peace was built by Silesian evangelicals - thanks to the intercession of the Swedish monarchy, the Catholic emperor (Roman and King of Germany) Ferdinand, for the sake of peace, allowed his Catholic country to build three Protestant temples in Silesia. It was supposed to be a gesture of tolerance, but difficulties for evangelicals were established. It is a symbol of Polish-German reconciliation - not only because of the name, but also for a joint visit to the Świdnik church in 1989 by the Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, when both politicians prayed for peace and reconciliation. In 2001, the Church of Peace in Świdnica was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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