Zakład zdrojowy diecezji przemyskiej w Brzozowie 1927-1948
Health and Leisure Centre of the Przemyśl Diocese in Brzozów 1927-1948

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present aspects related to building and maintaining health and leisure centre of the Przemyśl Diocese in Brzozów - largely based on voluntary taxation. The Diocese was the most successful in this area of health prevention in the interwar period. Within several months, the faithful of the Church and the clergy of this region - under the aegis of Bishop Anatol Nowak - managed to open in summer 1927 the magnificent spa facility with its own brine and baths accessible for clergy and seminarians. No Polish professional community recorded such success in the interwar period. The health and leisure centre was manager under the authority of the bishopric by the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate from Nowa Wieś. During the occupation The Przemyśl Seminary was placed in the centre. In parallel, both German and Soviet soldiers used the spa facility. After the war, the spa did not manage to return to its pre-war splendor. It definitively ceased to exist in 1948.

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