Kaplica na Sewerynówce

Henryk "Baltazar" Zachwieja

In the interior of the chapel are several works by Henrik Zachwieja. The artist was born in 1952 into the traditional highland family of Zachwieja. Although he was persuaded by his father, the famous Szczawnica hairdresser Tadeusz Zachwieja, to follow in his footsteps, Henryk decided to enrol at a music school in Nowy Sącz. He did not complete his education, and a year before his final exams he decided to enrol at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. When he was asked to paint a picture during the exam, the commission stated that this was how a person after the third year of studies paints, not the first year, and did not allow him to take any more exams, thinking that he was cheating. Zachwieja did not complete his art education and is mostly self-taught. His works can be found in many places in Szczawnica. His altar, tabernacle, harnas guarding it, sacrificial table and wooden stained glass windows can be found in the chapel on Sewerynówka.

Scorched sanatorium

On the way to the chapel, the overgrown foundations of the sanatorium can be seen. The facility was used as a lodging point for partisans during the Second World War and was partially burnt down in 1944. The building was renovated in the 1960s, but was again consumed by fire before reopening in 1962.