Late Gothic brick hall church in Karlino of 1510, with a tower like a town gate, a star vault and historic organs from the 19th century.
The Church of St Michael the Archangel stands on Plac Jana Pawła II in Karlino. It is a late Gothic brick hall built in 1510, with a tower resembling a town gate and a star vault inside.
The Catholic parish was established in 1355. The first church burned down in 1409, when Bogislaw VII captured and burned Karlino, and for about a hundred years the faithful used a temporary chapel. The present church was built in 1510 on the orders of Bishop Martin von Karith, and it was erected by the burgomaster Claus Rinkhold. A fire in 1685 burned out the interior and the chancel, and in 1807 French troops set up a storehouse here. The renovation of 1866 was carried out, among others, by Austrian prisoners after the Battle of Sadová, about 600 people.
A three-storey square tower at the west closes the unplastered, three-aisled body, and the main entrance is in its ground floor. Until the middle of the 17th century it was crowned with a tall ridge turret. The aisles are covered with a star vault, and the chancel is closed by a three-sided apse. Until the beginning of the 19th century there was a cemetery around the church, and until 1907 it was hidden on the market square side by the town hall, which burned down in January of that year. Only then was the church revealed in full.
Inside there are a Neo-Classical side altar from the 18th century, a painting of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane of 1892 by E. A. Fischer, a native of Karlino who received the title of honorary citizen of the town for his gift to the church, and Neo-Gothic organs from the middle of the 19th century under conservation protection. Sandstone tombstones of 1681 have also survived, as well as a Romanesque granite holy water stoup from the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, found while tidying the area around the church.
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