Places with character
a square in Śródmieście with tenement houses, the sculpture "Labirynt" and two churches
Places with character
former department store with the UFA Palast cinema, today an office building with a vertical garden
Places with character
a small square by the Red Town Hall with the Anchor Monument and a 19th-century pump
Places with character
a modernist fountain-sculpture of clinker, in a state of ruin for years
Places with character
steel bridge from 1921, the only Szczecin bridge to survive the Second World War
Atmospheric places in Nowe Miasto, Szczecin: Plac Zwycięstwa, a steel bridge to Jaskółcza Island, Posejdon Center and Tobruk Square.
Nowe Miasto is the part of central Szczecin between the Old Town and the Brama Portowa gate. The places here share the tag "for couples": squares, a bridge and a former department store that are easy to cover on foot in one afternoon.
Plac Zwycięstwa is a square of irregular, roughly rectangular shape that turns into Brama Portowa square at the level of the gate. Two churches stand beside it, and the buildings mix pre-war and post-war architecture. At the junction of Aleja Wojska Polskiego and the square stands the "Labirynt" Sculpture, a modernist fountain-sculpture of clinker bricks from 1997. It has been a ruin for years and no longer works as a fountain, so it is more an architectural curiosity than a destination in itself.
Nearby is Tobruk Square, a green square between Dworcowa, Świętego Ducha and Nowa streets, next to the Red Town Hall. Until 1945 it was known in German as Marktplatz. It holds the Anchor Monument and one of the 19th-century pumps of Szczecin.
Posejdon Center at Aleja Niepodległości 60 was once a department store with a cinema, the UFA Palast, opened in 1928. Today offices fill it, and a green wall faces the Brama Portowa gate. The building has had several lives, from a department store, through the Powszechny Dom Towarowy "Posejdon", to Galeria Centrum.
On the West Oder stands the Bridge to Jaskółcza Island, a historic steel truss bridge from 1920-1921 linking Kolumba street with the island. Hermann Scholl designed it, and it is the only bridge in Szczecin that survived the Second World War. Fans of industrial heritage will enjoy the detour.
For the rest of the walk see the pages things to do in Nowe Miasto, monuments in Nowe Miasto and cemeteries and monuments in Nowe Miasto, and similar places across the region are under atmospheric places.
The bridge to Jaskółcza Island from 1920-1921, a steel one over the West Oder. No other bridge in the city came through the war intact.
Originally a department store with the UFA Palast cinema, built in 1928. Later it housed the Powszechny Dom Towarowy "Posejdon" and then Galeria Centrum. Today it is an office building.
Until 1945 it was called Marktplatz in German. The Anchor Monument and a 19th-century pump stand on it, and the Red Town Hall is next door.
No. The sculpture from 1997 has been a ruin for years and does not work as a fountain.
