Gothic granite church rebuilt after 1480, with a brick tower from the late 19th century and a bell of 1855.
The church in Bezrzecze is a hall building of granite stones from the end of the 15th century, built after the previous church was burned by Brandenburg troops. Above the nave still stands a brick tower from the late 19th century with a bell of 1855.
The church's records reach back to the 13th century. In 1286 Hermann von Gleichen, Bishop of Kamień, transferred the patronage over it to the Collegiate Church of St Mary in Szczecin. The church of that time was burned in 1480, and a few years later, through the efforts of the local population, the church that stands to this day was built on its site.
The building has a rectangular plan measuring 15 by 9.4 metres, is built of granite stones and is covered with a gable roof. The south elevation has a pointed entrance portal. In the 17th century the original pointed windows were enlarged and changed to segmental ones. In the 1890s a brick tower was added to the nave and the east elevation was rebuilt, adding a neo-Gothic triangular gable. In the tower hangs a bell cast in 1855 by the Szczecin bell-founder C. Voss.
The interior is covered by a flat, wooden ceiling. Of the earlier furnishings a neo-Renaissance organ case, a hanging candelabrum, a cast-iron altar cross, a 19th-century sculpture of the Crucified and an organ by C. F. Voelkner have survived. After 1945 the pulpit altar with the coats of arms of the von Ramin and von Rohr families, the sculpture of the baptismal angel and two fonts from the 15th century and from 1757 were lost.
The church did not suffer during the Second World War. It was consecrated on 18 April 1946 as a Catholic church, under the title of Our Lady of the Rosary.
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