Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Pilchowo

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Pilchowo, a village in Police municipality, was built at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries as a granite hall building without a tower or a separate chancel. It belongs to the Szczecin-Niebuszewo deanery.

From the Middle Ages to neo-Romanesque

In the second half of the 19th century the church was thoroughly rebuilt in the neo-Romanesque spirit: the walls of the nave were raised, brick stepped gables with pinnacles and a semicircular apse on the east side were added, and the windows were closed with a semicircular arch. Of the original building the lower parts of the side walls have survived, up to the height of the windows. On the south wall a trace of the removed jambs of an earlier portal can be seen.

Fieldstone and brick

The nave and apse are of irregular fieldstones, and the gables, window surrounds and annexe of brick. The interior has a wooden beam ceiling and a choir gallery on pillars. The church is about 20.7 m long and 7.3 m wide. Next to it stands a wooden bell tower from the early 20th century, with a bell of 1872 cast in the Carl Voss & Sohn bell foundry in Szczecin.

Practical information

• Village: Pilchowo, Police municipality, near Szczecin.
• After the war the church was blessed as a Catholic church in 1949, and in 1985 an annexe with a porch was added to the west wall.
• Service times and the possibility of entering the interior are given by the parish.