Wang Church was built at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries in southern Norway, in the town of Vang, located on Lake Wang. This is where its name comes from. In the 19th century, it was decided to sell it. A monument of Viking architecture, it was purchased for 427 marks by the Prussian king, Frederick William IV.
In 1841, the object was dismantled into parts and transported in crates by ship to Szczecin and then to the Royal Museum in Berlin. Thanks to the efforts of Countess Fryderyka von Reden from Bukowiec, in the spring of 1842 the church was moved to the Karkonosze Mountains so that it could serve the Evangelicals living in Karpacz and the surrounding area. The construction site was donated by Count Christian Leopold von Schaffgotsch from Cieplice.
It is the slope of Czarna Góra (885 m above sea level), which is located halfway from lower Karpacz to Śnieżka. To obtain several hundred square meters of building plot for the church, rectory, school and cemetery, rocks were broken up and a six-meter retaining wall was built. On August 2, 1842, King Frederick William IV personally laid the cornerstone, and two years later, on July 28, 1844, the church was ceremonially opened and consecrated in the presence of the king and his wife, Dutch Prince Frederick and many other famous personalities. Wang Church was built like a Viking boat without the use of nails, only wooden dowels and joints. The temple is made of Norwegian pine, which is saturated with resin and is extremely durable.
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