St. Spirit Photo: Church Of St. Spirit

The Church of the Holy spirit – a neo-Gothic brick Church with a tower, located in the Polish city of Szczecin. The Church was built in the nineteenth century.

In 1859, the municipality took the decision to build the Church. On approval of the project and the fundraising went on for decades. The first stone was laid in 1892 the master from Szczecin. Construction of the Church was rapid, and within a year has passed solemn opening of the Church of the Holy spirit. The cost of construction amounted to almost 50,000 brands. Consecrated a new Church pastor D. Poetter September 10, 1893.

In 1934 Zdroj in (a neighborhood of Szczecin, located on the right Bank of the Oder river) was established Seminary pastors anti-Nazi Christian movement "Professing Church" headed by the German theologian and religious activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In 1945 he was killed by the Nazis in the camp in Flossenbürg. In memory of the martyrdom of Bonhoeffer in 2002 on one of the squares was a monument in his honor.

During the Second world war, the Church of the Holy spirit was used as a furniture warehouse. From the interior decoration has been preserved neo-Gothic organ second half of the nineteenth century, two lamps in the form of the crowns of the early twentieth century. Church tower partially collapsed during the war years, but was fully restored.

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