Wambierzyce

Wambierzyce [vambʲɛˈʐɨt͡sɛ] is a village and popular Catholic pilgrimage site in south-western Poland, in Gmina Radków, Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

[1] It is located in Kłodzko Land, a territory which in the Middle Ages often changed owners between Polish and Bohemian rulers.

The wooden statue of Our Lady, dating from the thirteenth century, was originally placed in a mighty linden tree located at this site.

The fourth and present church in Baroque style was then built 1715–1723, and financed by the local nobleman and owner Count Franz Anton von Götzen.

Pope John Paul II awarded the Madonna of Wambierzyce the title of "Queen of Families" in 1980.