Your personal bike guide
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Your personal bike guide
Not far from the corner of Wałowa and 11 Listopada streets, on the opposite sides of the road, there are shrines of St. Jan Nepomucen and St. Antoni. According to a local legend, during the flood of 1844, the swollen waters of Vistula brought along a statue of St. Jan Nepomucen – patron of safe crossings and defender against floods (according to hagiographists, the saint died at the end of the 14th century after he refused to reveal the secret of confession of the queen to the Czech king Wacław IV and was then thrown into Wetława). The said statue supposedly landed on a dune near Buraków. To commemorate that event, a shrine funded in 1849 by the heir of a local property, Ludwik de Poths was constructed here. The former version was in the form of a simple pedestal on which the statue was placed with a roof on four poles shadowing the saint. In the 20th century the residents of Buraków and Prochownia built a new masoned shrine (with only the plaque remaining of the old one). Unfortunately in 1994 the 18th century statue of St. Jan Nepomucen was burned (accidentally or intentionally) and was hence replaced with a statue made by a local artist Kazimierz Peczyński (the original still exists and is located in the church of St. Maria Magdalena in Łomianki. Until recently, both the shrine and the structure opposite were located on a small mound (remains of the dune), but it was levelled during the construction of a cycling lane in 2017.
"The web service promoting the cultural resources of the region based on cycling tourism" is co-financed by the European Union (European Fund for Regional Development) within the Regional Operational Programme for the Mazowsze Region for 2014-2020.
