Filial Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Kikowo

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Kikowo was built in 1847 as a chapel and mausoleum of the von Kleist family. Today it is a Roman Catholic filial church of the parish of Our Lady Help of Christians in Tychowo. The village lies in Tychowo municipality, in Białogard County.

The building and furnishings

It is a Neo-Romanesque building of brick and granite, with a single nave, a semicircular apse and a small tower, under which the clock mechanism was housed. Inside are a four-voice organ built by the Danish organ builder Emil Nielsen and underground burial crypts, now empty. Until 1999 there was a cemetery behind the church, and today a symbolic grave of the buried villagers stands there. By the entrance portal hangs a plaque in Polish and German honouring the pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who preached sermons in this church. The church has been in the heritage register since 1994.

Practical information

• Address: Kikowo 10a. In the same village stands a palace from the mid-19th century with an avenue of limes and a landscape park.
• The opening hours of the church are given by the parish in Tychowo.