Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Szczecin-Gumieńce

The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary on Lwowska Street in Gumieńce was built at the end of the 15th century on the site of an older wooden building. It is a Gothic hall church of stone and brick, without a separate chancel.

Architecture

In the east façade there is a blind window in the form of a cross, and above it a smaller round blind window. In 1800 the church was rebuilt: the windows were re-walled, the façades were supported with buttresses and a timber-framed tower was added on the west side. The four storeys of the tower have pointed-arch blind windows and window openings between pilaster strips, in the upper part there are clock faces, and the whole is covered by a shingled helmet roof with a spire.

Interior

The single-space interior is covered by a net vault with lunettes from the second half of the 16th century. Of the former furnishings a Baroque altar from the 18th century and a neo-Gothic font from the 19th century have survived. In the tower hang two bells: one from 1513 and one from 1708, cast in the workshop of J. H. Schmidt.

After 1945

From the Reformation the church was Protestant. After the Second World War it was taken over by Catholics, and on 1 August 1946 it was blessed by Fr Witold Stańczak TChr. In 1979 a general renovation was carried out, in which a porch beside the tower and a sacristy were added, and in 1983 catechetical rooms by the south wall. The area around the church is partly surrounded by a stone wall and includes a former cemetery closed down after 1945. In the 2020s a new, much larger church was built next to the old one.

Practical information

• Address: Lwowska Street, Szczecin-Gumieńce.
• Mass times and the possibility of going inside are given by the parish.

About two kilometres further on stretches the Szczecin Central Cemetery.