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Wooden architecture in Lower Silesia: Wang stave church

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    Vang stave church was build in the parish of Vang in the Valdres around 1200. In 1832 the local council desided to destroy it because it was too small. In 1841 this four-post single-nave stave church was bought by the Prussian King Frederick William IV, transferred from Norway and one year later it was re-erected in Karpacz in the Karkonosze Mauntains. Vang church is the oldest wooden church in Poland and it is probably the most visited stave church in the world.