Święta Lipka

Święta Lipka (Polish: [ˈɕfjɛnta ˈlipka], German: Heiligelinde[1]) is a small village in the administrative district of Gmina Reszel, within Kętrzyn County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northeastern Poland.

Święta Lipka is known for the pilgrimage sanctuary and temple of Baroque architecture and its pipe organ, a Historic Monument of Poland.

A chapel at the site was first mentioned in a 1491 deed issued by Johann von Tiefen, then Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.

Although the village lay in the Protestant region of Masuria, the Roman Catholic faith was again approved in the Duchy of Prussia in 1605.

[4] The chapel was rebuilt by the Jesuits and consecrated in 1619 by the Warmian prince-bishop Szymon Rudnicki and became a popular pilgrimage site among the Roman Catholic populace of the surrounding counties and other parts of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth,[5] as well as the Lutheran Masurians.

Nave of the church