Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary The city's most valuable building is a monumental five-nave church erected at the turn of the 14th/15th century. The architecture of the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an example of Pomeranian Gothic. The building is simple and lacks numerous ornamental threads. Since the 14th century, St. Mary's Church served as a collegiate church. Beginning in the 16th century it was a Protestant temple until the end of World War II. From the 17th to the 20th century it was repeatedly destroyed in warfare. In the second half of the 19th century the church was restored. It was then that the cannonballs, which are still stuck in the walls of the cathedral, from the battlefields of Kolobrzeg: the Thirty Years' War, the Seven Years' War and the Napoleonic siege, were embedded. They were meant to warn residents of future conflicts. This is the only 5-aisle church in Poland with historic interior design, tourists are also interested in the four crooked pillars, whose deviation from the vertical is about 60 cm. Inside, the most valuable monuments include a magnificent bronze baptismal font from 1355, the oldest Gothic stalls in Poland, valuable late Gothic triptychs and a huge chandelier from 1523, called the Schlieffen Crown. Remnants of ancient polychromy can also be seen on the walls.
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