Museums
steam locomotives from 1909-1928, carriages and a turntable on the tracks of a former light railway
Churches and monasteries
a Gothic hall church of the 13th-15th centuries with a 51.5 m tower and Baroque interior furnishings
Historic sites
brick defensive gate of the 15th century, housing a tourist information point and a museum
Historic sites
Gothic gate of the 14th century with a clock and a bugle call, today with guest rooms
Churches and monasteries
neo-Gothic church, a former brick Old Lutheran church, Orthodox since 1954
Lakes
Churches and monasteries
Gothic brick chapel of the 15th century in the cemetery, formerly a hospital chapel, today with a lapidarium
Historic sites
a Gothic brick tower from the 15th century, 25 m high, with a viewing balcony over the town
Historic sites
an oval circuit of walls with gates and towers that still surrounds the Gryfice Old Town
Places with character
the former market square of Gryfice, rebuilt in 2010, with offices and a church around it
Churches and monasteries
a Modernist brick church of 1930-1932, entered in the heritage register
Things to do in Gryfice: town walls, two gates, St Mary church with a 51 m tower and an open-air narrow-gauge railway display. Eleven places.
Gryfice is a small town on the Rega with an old town inside the outline of its former walls. A walk around it takes a few hours, and the railway museum and the lake give a reason to stay longer.
Start on Victory Square, walk around St Mary church and follow the walls to one of the gates. A single loop through the old town shows everything oldest in Gryfice.
Victory Square is the central space of the old town. Until 2010 it was a rectangular market 84 by 80 metres, rebuilt that year. Beside it rises St Mary church, a Gothic hall from the 13th to 15th centuries with a 51.5 metre tower, a 13th-century font and Baroque furnishings. A wider list of buildings is on the page architecture in Gryfice.
Gryfice kept sections of walls from the early 14th century, two gates and a tower. The route along them is short and runs along small streets by the Rega.
The defensive walls enclosed the old town in an oval about 650 metres long. Building began around 1300 in place of a palisade. Two gates remain: the Stone Gate from the 14th century in the northern part of the old town, now with guest rooms and a clock that plays a bugle call, and the High Gate from the 15th century at the southern edge. The latter holds a tourist information point and the Brama museum and gallery. In the north-east stands the Gunpowder Tower, a twin-cylinder tower with a viewing balcony made in 2007. All of this is compared in an article on the walls and gates of Gryfice, Trzebiatów, Goleniów and Gryfino.
Besides the Gothic St Mary church, Gryfice has three other places of worship: a cerkiew, a cemetery chapel and an interwar church. Each is from a different era and takes a few minutes to see.
The Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God at Nowy Świat 3 is a neo-Gothic building, a former Old Lutheran church, Orthodox since 1954. St George Chapel on ul. Broniszewska, from the 15th century, is a cemetery chapel built where a leper hospital chapel once stood, and it holds a lapidarium. The Church of the Sacred Heart at Górska 8 is modernist brick from 1930-1932, listed as a monument. More are on the page churches and monasteries in Gryfice.
For rain and for people interested in technology there is the narrow-gauge railway museum, and for fine weather a lake outside town.
The Permanent Exhibition of Pomeranian Narrow-Gauge Railways at ul. Błonie 2 is a branch of the National Museum in Szczecin, an open-air display of steam locomotives and carriages from West Pomerania. Lake Kołomąckie covers 33 ha and has a beach with piers, while camping cabins stand only in the north-east corner. The lake carries the free tag and fits the suggestions on the page Gryfice solo.
The old town with the walls and gates takes two to three hours. The narrow-gauge railway museum is worth adding as a separate stop.
Yes, the narrow-gauge railway exhibition, and also the information point and museum in the High Gate.
Yes, the town has walls, gates, a Gothic parish church and chapels. The list is on the page monuments in Gryfice.
The event calendar can be filtered by day and category. See the page events in Gryfice.
