A squat fieldstone church from the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries in Czaplinek, on the hill of a former stronghold, with a Baroque canopy altar and a Sauer organ.
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Czaplinek is called the “little church” by the townspeople. It stands on Moniuszki Street, on a rise known as Kazimierz Hill. It is a squat building of fieldstone, with Gothic features and Romanesque elements, entered in the heritage register.
According to the Wikipedia entry the church was built at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, probably on the site of a wooden castle of the Templars and Hospitallers, and earlier of a Slavic stronghold. The heritage register dates the building more broadly, to the 13th century. Repeated rebuilding after fires blurred the original form. The church is oriented and has no tower: the former one burned down in 1725 and was not rebuilt. Next to it stands a trestle belfry with a bell from the 18th century.
The interior is decorated with a Baroque canopy altar: a wooden, gilded canopy supported on six columns and adorned with figures of angels. Wings were added at the side of the altar in the 19th century. Beside it stands a wooden neoclassical pulpit of 1823. There is also a copy of Rubens's painting Holy Trinity, figural polychromes from the early 19th century depicting saints and Doctors of the Church as well as scenes of the Annunciation and the Nativity, and above the main entrance a seven-stop Sauer organ from the 19th century.
In Czaplinek there is also the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, next to it the town hall and a Jewish cemetery, and above the town lies Lake Czaplinek.
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