a neo-Gothic brick church with a tower 78 m high and a Voelkner organ from 1908
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
Churches and monasteries
a Greek Catholic church built in 2010-2015, consecrated after an arson attack in 2014
Churches and monasteries
neo-Romanesque Polish Church of 1923 next to the Redemptorist monastery
Churches and monasteries in Szczecinek: a neo-Gothic parish church, the tower of St Nicholas, two Orthodox churches and the neo-Romanesque Holy Spirit church.
Szczecinek has a small but varied set of places of worship: Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and Greek Catholic. It makes a good plan for a quiet afternoon for anyone who likes architecture and the history of a town set among lakes.
Downtown there are two sites tied to the former Protestant church of St Nicholas. The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at 3-go Maja 1 is a brick church in the neo-Gothic style, raised between 1905 and 1908 to a design by Oskar Hoßfeld, and its organs are by Paul Voelkner. Originally Protestant and dedicated to St Nicholas, it now serves a Catholic parish.
The older story is told by the Tower of St Nicholas' Church in Szczecinek at Ks. Elżbiety 6. This Gothic brick tower is all that survives of a church pulled down in 1909. The lower walls reach 2.5 m in thickness, and the tower has a place in the register of monuments. It housed a museum until 2006. The article the Regional Museum in Szczecinek and the tower of the demolished church tells more.
The two churches differ in age and denomination. The Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity at Szkolna 6 is Orthodox and occupies the building of a former synagogue from 1824. The outside is plain, while inside stands a modern iconostasis.
The Greek Catholic Church of St Michael the Archangel on Karlińska street is a Greek Catholic church, new and topped with an onion dome. Work took place in 2010-2015, so it is not an old church taken over by a parish but a place of worship built from scratch.
The Church of the Holy Spirit is a neo-Romanesque church from 1923 and was the only Catholic one in the town until 1945. It was called the Polish Church and stands next to the Redemptorist monastery. It was raised through the efforts of local Catholics.
Other places in town, including the lakeside park, are on the pages things to do in Szczecinek and parks and nature in Szczecinek. For wider context there is a walk through the town on the isthmus between the lakes, and other churches of the region are under churches and monasteries.
The parish church at 3-go Maja, built of brick in 1905-1908. It was originally the Protestant church of St Nicholas.
The Gothic brick tower on Ks. Elżbiety street, which is entered in the register of monuments. The church itself was demolished in 1909.
Yes, the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity at Szkolna 6 is housed in a former synagogue building from 1824.
The Greek Catholic Church of St Michael the Archangel, built in 2010-2015 and consecrated in 2015, with an onion dome on the roof.
