Baroque Baptistery

The chapel was built after the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) in an octagonal shape outside the walls of the Basilica, founded by the townspeople of Nysa, as a place of prayers for the dead in epidemics and the fallen, covered with a dome with lunettes and a lantern. The entrance is flanked by two knight’s tombstones, further there are two epitaphs, on the left hand side of Henryk Ferdynand Entzmann (+1708), on the right hand side of the canon of Nysa, Tobias Konstanty Hanck (+1719). In the background you can see a rich altar with figure of the patron saints of Silesia and the Wrocław diocese. In the centre, there is a late-gothic baptismal font with a Baroque cover and richly decorated Renaissance grating dating from 1627. In the side walls, in neo-gothic panelling, four confessionals and 48 panel paintings by Dakwart, the so-called catechism and confession of faith in pictures. In the crypt under the Baptistery youc an find tombstones of two priests Klemens Neumann (+1927) and Józef Kondziołka (1987), the first post-war parish priest.