Pomocne is one of the oldest villages in the Kaczawskie Foothills. It was founded in the first half of the 13th century as a strip village, with buildings located in the Wilcza valley and strips of land extending towards adjacent plateaus.
Above the village, the Church of St. Martin dominates. It was erected on a high escarpment above the valley at the turn of the 13th/14th century, rebuilt in the late 18th century in the Baroque style. At that time, a tower topped with a spire was added to the church’s structure. Stone cartouches with the Cistercian coat of arms were placed above the entrance to the porch. The area around the church is enclosed by a wall with gates. Opposite the church, at the bottom of the valley, stands the rectory building. At the foot of the slope, rocks that make up the immediate surroundings of the village are exposed – gray phyllites with characteristic schistose separation.
The second church that once stood in the village, the Evangelical church, did not survive. Located near the Church of St. Martin, it was not used after World War II and was demolished. Only the rectory and remnants of the cemetery remain. The numerous residential and mixed-use buildings in the village have historical value and represent the typical half-timbered masonry construction of the Sudetenland region. Many of them date back to the 19th century, while some have even older foundations. To the south, above the village, a basalt cone of the Czartowska Rock, located less than 1 km away, rises.
Description: Piotr Migoń
