After the school run last Friday, I made for nearby Bralin. My plan was to walk across the fields to the site of an early German Jagdschloß Würzburg radar station. From two minutes research on GoogleMaps, I’m not sure that much remains, only perhaps some of the concrete pedestals that the array stood on, but I wanted to go to ‘feel’ the place.

I parked near the Pólko church, or Church of Nativity of Our Lady to give it its Sunday name. Pólko, or ‘na pólku’ means ‘in the fields’, and it certainly is. It was completed in 1711 and of course has had many refurbishments, but unlike many historic structures in this area, it’s still there!

It was a few Celcius below freezing and the bitter wind, howling across the fields from the east dropped the temperature by another ten degrees. So instead of my trek to find some overgrown concrete, I settled for the windbreak offered by the church and snapped as many pictures as it took for the ends of my fingers to stop working…

It’s an impressive place, especially the roof. Every wooden tile is handmade to fit and individually nailed in place. Sometime I’ll go back when it’s open – I expect it’ll be warmer inside…