A tourist visiting the former royal town Wschowa should also see the famous set of church and monastery buildings with many outstanding architectural traits, which belong to the Franciscans. With great reverence the faithful sons of St. Francis take care of the beauty of buildongs built centuries ago, and continue the work of their predecessors working for the good of the local church and for the redemption of souls.
         On 7 November 1456 the place for the future monastery was handed over to the Franciscans. On 10 May 1457 according to the law Andrzej from Bnin, the bishop of Poznan approved the foundation that the monastery belonged the Order and Church.
         At the beginning the monastery was placed in the Austrian - Czech province. In 1467 it was included to the new Polish Franciscan province. In its early period the monastery in Wschowa, as it was typical of all monasteries, was for novices who did their trial of living in monastery for a year.
         As the monastery was a strong and invicible center of Catholicism, it was a thorn in the Protestants side and in such atn atmosphere of hatred a way off getting rid of the monks was searched. In 1 September 1558 a fire was set to the buildingsnear the church. In the result the monastery and the church burnt down. In 1564 the king Zygmunt August gave his aproval for selling the land of the monastery to two townspeople and they gave the land to the town.
         Homever, in 1629 the land was got back. About the year 1644 building of the church was finished. At the beginning the church was to be devoted to St. Ann, but finally it was St.Joseph's Church. The new church building had a lot of characteristics of the late Renaissance period, but the external butresses were of early Baroque, and the slender internal pilasters, as well as the fluting of the windows were the elements of Gothic tradition. Although the church 's chronicle did not mention the name of the architect, the architectonic characteristics indicate that it was Krzysztof Bonadura the Eldest ( around 1582 - 1670 ). The solemn consecration of St. Joseph's Church was done by Marian Maciej Kurski, the bishop suffragan of Poznan ( 1600 - 1681 ). Some people do not know that Marian Maciej Kurski before he received bishop's consecration had been one of the Franciscans. The tower was built in only 1742, when the guardian, father Manswet Grabowski was the head of the monastery, according to the project of Józef Sztyerthe, an architect from Rydzyń. Simultaneously with building the church also the new monastery was built sticking to the church from the South. The monastery was a set of buildong grouped around quadrilateral churchyard called viridarium. The monastery was designed for 20 monks.

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