Bell tower, Zubrzyca Górna
34-484 Zubrzyca Górna
Tourist region: Beskid Żywiecki i Orawa
The bell tower is one of the exhibits in the museum of the Orava Ethnographic Park in Zubrzyca Górna. Dating back to the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it is known as the Loretto or Storm House and was brought from the hamlet of Zimna Dziura. It is a wooden tower on a low foundation, of log construction with walls converging diagonally upwards, boarded, and topped by a mullioned superstructure with clerestory windows with a bell. It features an exhibition on sacred themes. Such bell towers erected in the villages were intended to ward off 'płanetniks', i.e., spirits coming with storm clouds, and, above all, to call for services. The bells also rang natural disasters.