Museums
one of the oldest museums in the region, with a nobility room, a hunting room and a collection of silver
a neo-Gothic brick church with a tower 78 m high and a Voelkner organ from 1908
Museums
museum in a Pomeranian Wall bunker of 1935, with militaria and a T-34-85 tank at the entrance
Churches and monasteries
Orthodox church in a brick synagogue of 1824, adapted for the liturgy in 1952
Churches and monasteries
Gothic brick tower left from a church demolished in 1909, former seat of the town museum
Architecture in Szczecinek: red-brick Neo-Gothic, a Gothic tower, an Orthodox church within the walls of an old synagogue and a combat bunker of the 1930s.
Szczecinek has a short but varied list of buildings worth seeing: brick of the early twentieth century, a medieval tower, a building that changed denomination and a former German bunker turned museum. The five places share one thing: each tells of changes the town went through. The overview of Szczecinek is under things to do in Szczecinek, and comparable buildings from other towns of the region are in historic architecture of the region.
Begin in the centre, where a church of the early twentieth century and the tower of an older one stand, with Szkolna Street, its Orthodox church and its museum close by. The bunker needs separate planning, because it lies on Kościuszki Street. Each of these buildings has a different style and comes from a different era.
The church dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary stands at 3 Maja 1. Oskar Hoßfeld designed it in the Neo-Gothic style, and building lasted from 1905 to 1908; originally it was the Protestant New St Nicholas church. An organ by Paul Voelkner survives inside. Older is Wieża kościoła św. Mikołaja w Szczecinku (the tower of St Nicholas' church) at Księżnej Elżbiety 6: this Gothic brick structure outlived the demolition of the old church in 1909. The walls at ground level are up to 2.5 metres thick. Until 2006 the tower served a museum.
Cerkiew Świętej Trójcy w Szczecinku (the Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity) occupies number 6, a former synagogue raised in 1824. The facade has no decoration, and a modern iconostasis hangs inside. At number 1 is Muzeum Regionalne w Szczecinku (the Regional Museum), among the earliest museums in the region. The museum's own site gives 1914 as the year of foundation, though its beginnings go back to an archaeological exhibition of 1866. It has regional, noble, garrison, hunting and silverware rooms as well as archaeological collections.
The museum described in the entry on the Pomeranian Wall bunker was set up in a structure the Germans built in 1934-1935 as part of a line of defences. The museum's site calls it a B-Werk and says it is the best preserved bunker of its class in Pomerania. Displays include military equipment and a T-34-85 tank. The museums on this list are tagged as good for rain.
The setting of the town between its lakes is explained in a text proposing a walk through town, and the museum's beginnings and the fate of the tower are told in a text on the museum and the tower of St Nicholas' church. The defences of the 1930s have an article of their own about bunkers and a fortified group.
The walls of the tower, which is listed in the register of monuments. The church was pulled down in 1909.
Yes, at Szkolna 6. The building dates from 1824 and still has a plain facade.
Oskar Hoßfeld. The church was built in 1905-1908 as a Protestant one and is a parish church today.
The Regional Museum at Szkolna 1 or the museum in the Pomeranian Wall bunker. Both are tagged as good for rain.
