St. Michael's Church in

Grodków Grodków (; ; ) is a town in Brzeg County, Opole Voivodeship in Poland, the administrative seat of Gmina Grodków. It is located in the Silesian Lowlands of the Oder basin, in the historic Upper Silesia region, about south of Brzeg. In the nort ...

, Poland, is a

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built in the thirteenth century. The church belongs to the

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. The church was built in the Early-

architectural style, first mentioned in 1282, in 1449 burned down by a fire and subsequently rebuilt. The expansion work on the church in the fifteenth and sixteenth-century was blighted by the

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and as such was burned down again. Prior to 1671, the church was renovated by

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, Sebastian von Rostock. The church began to be Re- Gothicised in 1893.

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