Breslau Cabinet of Natural and Artificial Curiosities

the decollation of St. Barbara with Dismas, that is, the thief on the right, standing above, painted by the most celebrated Willmann.

Furthermore, the tower of this church is quite high, constructed with remarkable art, and furnished with a triple circuit.

IV. The monastery of St. James, built by Henricus Pius Henry the Pious, son of St. Hedwig, who was killed by the Tartars and buried there, took the name of St. Vincent in the memory of our ancestors. Below the middle altar panel, his effigy is seen in stone, shown treading the Tartar under his feet. The altars, the pulpit, the bases, the pneumatic organ, etc., likewise bear the same structure, and the middle altar panels, likewise affixed to the walls, are almost all painted by Willmann, among which those that touch the choir most closely especially praise the artist.

At this time, the Prelate who is still alive, the Most Illustrious Lord, Lord Ferdinand, Count of Hohberg, is having a truly incomparable chapel built, which is being covered everywhere with marble-ized plaster by Ignatius Provisore, a marble-worker from Vienna; however, it has not yet been determined who is to adorn the ceiling or dome with paintings, and with which ones.

Among the magnificent Parish Churches in which the services of the Evangelicals are held, is:

I. The Church of St. Elizabeth, built by Henricus III around the middle of the 13th century. Nearby stands a very high tower, with the history of the ruin which is depicted in the church, and outside of it is seen on a board affixed to the tower.

The same tower has a remarkable bell cast in the year 1512, the circumference of which is 14 Breslau ells and the lower thickness almost half an ell, and the weight is 224 centners A historical unit of weight, roughly 100-120 lbs..

The middle panel of the primary altar, representing the Lord's Supper, also had the most excellent artist Willmann: and in the pillar, next to the sacristy, it is worth looking at the ancient epitaph of Magdalena Kromayer from the year 1564, in which the resurrection, as it is described in Ezekiel 37, is very beautifully depicted; to which should be added the monument of Henr. Ribisch, Doctor of Law and Imperial Councilor...