It's history is connected with the battle of Stary Wielisław on the 27 December 1428 r. The knights of Silesia as well as the hosts of Kłodzko earldom with Hussites, led by Jan Kráľovec were involved in the battle. Unfortunately all the invaders ravaged the land of Kłodzko. Poorly planned attack on the fortified camp ended with the defeat of heretics armies led by John Ziębicki and the death of the Prince.
Analyzing the chronicle records, a prominent researcher of the history of Kłodzko, Josef Kögler, reports that 400 knights were killed in the battle(350 knights were buried in Szalejów Dolny and 50 knights in Kłodzko) as well as 250 Hussites. They were supposed to be buried in Stary Wielisław. However, they were buried outside the cemetery, most likely at the place where a votive column is situated today. The votive column was transferred here from another place in the eighteenth century. The votive column is situated opposite the school.
The figure showing the church in Stary Wielisław, built in the first half of the eighteenth century. There is another column visible at this point. This place was called "the old graveyard".
After the withdrawal of the Hussite, a small, wooden chapel was built at the place of the alleged death of the Prince. In 1800 Tadeusz Lachnit – a miller and an owner of the land, first, he demolished the chapel, then built another larger and brick one. The epitaph of his wife who died in 1807 is embedded in the wall near the entrance to the church. The chapel was renovated in 1883 by August Schindler, who was another owner of the mill.
In connection with the construction of the railway line Klodzko – Kudowa (nineteenth and twentieth century) the chapel was demolished . At the inhabitants’ behest however, it was rebuilt between 1904 – 1905 according to Ludwig Schneider’s design in neo-Gothic style, slightly further away from the original place. (Ludwig Scheinder was a prominent Silesian architect and according to his design Rosary Chapel in Bardo was built, as well as several churches in Silesia). Above the entrance there is the inscription: ”John, the Duke of Ziębice was killed for his bravery for his beloved country”. There is a stone bas – relief of a Piast eagle, as well as coast of arms of Kłodzko and Ziębice. Inside there is an altar, and on the ceiling there is a fresco depicting the moment of the death of the Prince who was killed by the Hussites.
The chapel, that is so commonly called, has nothing in common with the "mausoleum". The word means a kind of tomb in the monumental form. According to Kögler, Prince John Ziębicki, who is memorialized in the chapel, after a battle with the Hussites, was supposed to be buried in Kłodzko.
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