Late Romanesque church of granite cobbles from the 13th century, with a Baroque altar and a bell of 1672 found in 2015.
Holy Trinity Church in Kołbaskowo is a late Romanesque building of the second half of the 13th century, built of granite cobbles laid in courses. It stands on a raised village green, within the grounds of a former cemetery surrounded by a stone wall.
The church is a hall, on a rectangular plan measuring 16.2 by 6.9 metres, under a gable roof. In the 18th century a half-timbered tower was added at the west, and in 1871 it was rebuilt and given a helm. In the side walls of the nave there are three windows each with pointed heads, re-walled in the 19th century. In the east wall two original Gothic windows have survived, and the gable is decorated with three pointed blind niches. In the 1980s a bricked-up south portal was uncovered, and the windows received stained glass to a design by Bruno Tode, made in the Ratajski workshop in Szczecin.
A Baroque high altar of the 18th century has survived inside, with an oil painting of the Descent from the Cross, painted on panel. Of the former furnishings there are also two 17th-century bronze candlesticks, a brass font of 1691 decorated with a vine motif and a bronze chandelier of 1708. The bell, cast in 1672 in the Szczecin workshop of Lorenz Köckeritz, was taken down from the tower after it cracked, and in the 1990s it was considered lost. It was found in 2015 on a private property in Pyrzyce County. It returned to Kołbaskowo and was hung in the free-standing wooden bell tower.
The church was damaged during the Second World War, when the helm of the tower was destroyed. The consecration took place in 1950, and the parish was established a year later.
In the area, about 3 km further on, lies the Wzgórze Widokowe nad Międzyodrzem nature reserve.
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