Kapliczka Sobierajów
Wayside Shrines
Wayside shrine, Prądnik Czerwony district. Date according to OpenStreetMap: 1683. Wayside shrines were often raised out of gratitude, to commemorate events, or to ask for a safe journey.
History
The Sobieraj Wayside Shrine stands on Dobrego Pasterza Street in Prądnik Czerwony, opposite the building of the former municipal office. It dates from the 17th century. According to tradition it was probably built in 1683 to commemorate a short stop by King John III Sobieski in the village: in August of that year he halted here before the Polish army set off for the relief of Vienna.
Later the shrine took on a second meaning. Insurgents of the January Uprising who died of their wounds in a nearby stable, where they had been hiding, were buried beside it, so it came to serve the purpose of an old-style lantern of the dead.
Did you know?
The name Prądnik Czerwony ("Red Prądnik") probably refers to the blood shed in 1587, when the armies of Archduke Maximilian Habsburg and Jan Zamoyski clashed in the area.