A brick single-nave church from the 19th century in Bieniczki, with a tower from 1917, a polychrome ceiling, a pulpit and slabs bearing the arms of the von Dewitz family.
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Bieniczki is a brick branch church in Nowogard municipality, Goleniów County, belonging to the parish in Wierzbięcin. It was built in the 19th century as a Protestant church.
The church is an oriented single-nave building of red brick, with a chancel closed on five sides and a gable roof. The east and west gables are stepped and decorated with blind windows. In 1917 a tower with a spire and a pointed-arch portal was added on the west side, and the door is decorated with a relief of St Michael the Archangel. Two bells hang in the tower, dated 1832 and 1857.
A wooden beamed ceiling is covered with polychrome painting. Above the entrance is a 19th-century gallery with an organ case (the organ itself is devastated). The 19th-century pews, a Neo-Gothic font and a pulpit on a pillar have survived, and in the chancel are two stone slabs bearing the arms of the von Dewitz family.
After the war the church was first used by Protestants, then stood unused and fell into ruin. After reconstruction a bishop consecrated it as a Catholic church on 8 December 1974. The church is entered in the heritage register.
Nearby stands, among others, the parish church in Wierzbięcin.
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