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The church of St. Martin was probably founded around 1100 as a Romanesque church and replaced by a Gothic building between 1320 and 1370. At the time of the Reformation, the Simultaneum (a policy allowing public worship by the followers of two or more religious groups in the same church: Simultankirche) was established for St. Martin's Church, and Protestants and Catholics shared the church since 13 August 1548. This was especially true for the nave, the choir remaining purely Roman Catholic. This condition was established by the Peace of Westphalia, which referred to the normal year 1624, and still exists today. According to the land register, the owner of the parish church is the Gemeinschaftliche Kirchenpflege Biberach.

The St. Martini Church, founded in 1229, is one of the oldest churches in the city. The late Gothic brick building was heavily destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt after the war. Since 1973, the building is a classified heritage.

St. Martin's Church has existed for over a thousand years, but the present building actually dates from 1905-06, when the old church was largely replaced by a new building influenced by Art Nouveau. The heating and the interior have been modernised and renovated in recent years.

The Church of St. Martin and Castulus represents one of the greatest masterpieces of Gothic architecture in Germany. Its 130.60-metre high bell tower is the highest brick tower in the world and the third-highest medieval tower after those of Strasbourg Cathedral and St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. In 1204, the year Landshut was founded by Duke Ludwig I of Bavaria, a church was already built on this site. Today's church is a reconstruction from the end of the 14th century, consecrated in 1500.

The wooden chapel of Saint Martin in Stari Brod, built in the 17th century, is a rare example of traditional Baroque architecture with a fully preserved painted interior. Although extremely dilapidated, the chapel remained in service until 2007, when its reconstruction began. After the restoration work was completed in 2015, the chapel was put back into service.

St. Martin’s church in Wiśniowa was built in 1720-1730 and comprehensively renovatedand reconstructed in the 19th century.

St. Martin’s Parish Church in Zawada (15th century) stands on the crest of a hill.

The St. Mary Magdalene Church is a stone church first mentioned in 1380 as an auxiliary church of the congregation of Palamuse. The church was probably built in the second half of the 14th or 15th century. During the wars of the 16th century, a large part of the church of Mary Magdalene was destroyed. In 1642 the construction of a new church began. After the Great Northern War, the church had to be repaired again, although it came out of it without major damage. In 1885-1887 the old church was completely rebuilt in the neo-gothic style. The last major renovation took place in 1937.

St. Mary Magdalene Church is a Roman Catholic church built in 1709, where the Jesuits were active until 1820 when Alexander I expelled them from Russian territory. The first wooden Catholic church in Auleja was built in 1530, it was one of the oldest wooden churches in Latgale. In 1626 it passed into the hands of the Jesuits who rebuilt it. Restoration work was carried out on this church in 1675, but after 10 years, in 1685, the church burned down. Until 1709 there was a temporary church in Auleja.

The foundation stone of the St. Mary Magdalene church was laid on August 5, 1858, and the church was consecrated on March 13, 1860. However, additions such as the north nave, the tower and its spire and the south transseptal chapel made the construction of the church last until 1883.