A Gothic church from the 14th century with a Renaissance altar, rebuilt after the fire of 2005.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Nowogard is a Gothic brick church built in the 14th century. It is the parish church of the Nowogard deanery and is entered in the heritage register. In 2005 a fire destroyed the tower and part of the furnishings, but the Renaissance altar from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries survived.
In 1451 the chapel of the Eberstein family, then owners of Nowogard, was added on the north side, and a few decades later the tower on the west side. Fires in 1559 and 1595 and the Thirty Years' War damaged the church, which in the 17th century was rebuilt and extended on the south side with chapels. In 1832-1833 it was re-Gothicised, and in 1928-1931 new vaults were made over the chancel and side aisles. After the Second World War the church was consecrated on 5 August 1945, and in the 1970s polychromes by Joanna Spychalska were painted in the interior. During the fire of 3 December 2005, parts of the church, the tower and some of the historic furnishings were burned.
It is a three-aisled, three-bay pseudo-basilica with a three-sided chancel and a rectangular tower topped with a small turret. The aisles have star and cross-rib vaults resting on two pairs of octagonal pillars. The roof truss, vaults and top of the tower have been replaced, so the church is a Gothic monument that has been renovated many times.
Of the original furnishings, the Renaissance altar with a dozen or so scenes from the life of Christ has survived, among them the Nativity, the Baptism, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. The 18th-century pulpit is also valuable, although another account says it was made in 1929 in the neo-Baroque style. The main portal is decorated with two stone Romanesque fonts.
About two hundred metres from the church lies the Jewish cemetery, and above the town stretches Lake Nowogard.
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