Gryfino poviat - poviat in Poland, in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, created in 1999 as part of an administrative reform. His seat is Gryfino.
An administrative division
The poviat consists of: urban-rural communes: Cedynia, Chojna, Gryfino, Mieszkowice, Moryń, Trzcińsko-Zdrój, rural communes: Banie, Stare Czarnowo, Widuchowa towns: Cedynia, Chojna, Gryfino, Mieszkowice, Moryń, Trzcińsko-Zdrój
Neighboring counties
Szczecin (city with poviat rights) Police County
Worth seeing
in Gryfino
Architecture
The whole layout of the Old Town from the second half of the 13th century is under protection. Legally protected monuments Gothic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - a late-Romanesque-gothic parish church, previously st. Nicholas, the building is a single-span, three-nave hall with a transept (transverse nave), a rectangular choir (presbytery) and a square west tower in plan. The straight-closed chancel, transept and the central nave in their projection form the layout of the Greek cross (isosceles), the beginning of the construction of the church dates back to 1278, when prince Barnim I handed over the patronage over the temple to the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Szczecin. The foundation of the altar in 1300 is associated with the completion of the construction of the eastern part of the church, i.e. the chancel and transept. These parts were built of stone blocks with the use of bricks in architectural detail. The second stage of construction is to be completed in 1325, when Prince Otto I founded the second altar. At that time, a basilica, three-nave, single-span body and a stone western tower in the lower part were to be built. The existence of the basilica layout at that time (aisles lower than the nave) is evidenced by the windows in the upper part of the walls of the nave, visible today in the attic of the church. The third stage of construction falls on the late gothic era (15th century). The aisles were then raised to the height of the main nave, creating a hall system, and stellar vaults were installed (so far the church was covered with a wooden ceiling). In 1938, the medieval cone crowning the tower was changed into a neo-baroque helmet, completely incompatible [footnote needed] with the whole.
Main article: Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gryfino.
Banska Gate
Banska Gate - built in the 14th century, then modernized in 1864, 1979, 1984. The entire massive block of the gate is 15.3 meters high, up to 11.75 meters made of field stone and built in the 15th century with bricks by a further 3.55 meters. The outer dimensions of the gate are 8m x 8.5m, the thickness of the passage walls - east 1.65 m, west (with a staircase in the wall thickness) 2.20 m. The large ogival opening above the gate's passage from the town side was walled up after 1500. Defensive walls
Defensive walls - built in the 14th - 15th centuries; They were built of field stone laid in thick layers, leveled every 1 m with small pebbles and pebbles. The current height of the walls does not exceed 4 meters, originally it was about 6 meters. Currently, the section in the south-eastern corner of the city, adjacent to the park, remains in the best condition. It is approximately 70 meters long, 4 meters high and from 1.0 to 1.5 meters thick.
The Palace near Lwami - it was built at the end of the 19th century on the site of a medieval moat, which was leveled down in the 18th century. It has the form of a villa with the character of a suburban manor house. It was built by the German industrialist Henrich Moller, a producer of soap and detergents. For this purpose, he bought a large part of the then city gardens (created after the leveling of the moat) located outside the medieval city walls. Along the present Chrobrego Street there was a ditch leading water to the former moat. Over this very ditch there was a bridge decorated with two stone lions, which to this day decorate the entrance to the palace and from which the building owes its name. The palace was built in several phases: the first - the residential part was built, then the eastern part was added, and finally, a utility room and a coach house. In the middle of the courtyard there is a brick fountain covered with green glaze with decorative tiles with the motifs of masks and aquatic animals. An alley of yews leads to the palace, and in the surrounding park there are numerous trees, mainly conifers: black pine, sycamore, yew and the Nutcai cypress. There were numerous stone sculptures in the park that were destroyed during World War II. Currently, only one and the remains of the fountain have survived. The city walls constitute the southern border of the park. Until recently, there was a pond in the north-west part of the park. After the war, numerous associations had their headquarters here (e.g. singing societies, the Headquarters of the Polish Scouting Association, a seasonal tourist youth hostel). From 1958, there was a branch of Primary School No. 1 in the palace until the establishment of Primary School No. 2, which from September 1959 operated in the palace, being the first secular school in Gryfino. In the 1960s, the Basic Agricultural School (commonly known as "Pomidorówka") found its place within the walls of the palace. From 1977, the Youth Cultural Center and branches of Primary School No. 1 and Primary School No. 2 operated at the same time in the Pałacyk pod Lwami. Until noon, lessons were held in the building, in the afternoon, after the benches were removed - activities of the Youth Cultural Center [10]. Post Office No. 1
Post office with an outbuilding - the building is located at the corner of 1 Maja streets from the south and ul. Allied from the east. The building was erected in 1883 for the purpose of a post office. The location of the building in this place is connected with the construction of the Kostrzyn-Szczecin railway line in 1877.
Slaughterhouse - a complex of buildings from the beginning of the 20th century, a production building with a water tower, an administrative and residential building, a warehouse, and a fence. The slaughterhouse was established in the industrial suburbs of Szczecin (Stettiner Vorstadt). The slaughterhouse received the existing buildings at the beginning of the 20th century, its buildings stand on a four-sided square, surrounded by a high brick wall, and on the side of ul. The wrought fence of Szczecinska has brick pillars. The slaughterhouse complex was built of ceramic bricks. Most of the single-storey buildings are covered with roofs of various shapes. At the beginning of the 20th century, the plant was engaged in the production of cold meats and canned food. After 1945, the slaughterhouse continued to function as a butcher's shop. After 1994, production was discontinued and the building was sold to a private owner [11]. (ul. Szczecińska 37). Other historical objects A chapel at the municipal cemetery
Municipal cemetery - was established by the then German city authorities, probably around 1909. It has a system of alleys and a central location of the cemetery chapel similar to the Central Cemetery in Szczecin at ul. Towards the sun. The neo-Gothic cemetery chapel was built around 1911. After World War II, a Polish cemetery was established in the same place (in the so-called clean field - in the middle of the German cemetery). The first Polish grave (of Aniela Wojciechowska) dates from August 31, 1945. The cemetery is densely wooded, covered with a diverse stand of trees, including plane trees, linden trees, Canadian pines, silver spruces and over 100 yew trees.
War cemetery - established in 1946 as a result of exhumation in 1947, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1969, it has an area of 0.70 ha, established in 1946. The bodies of the fallen were exhumed from the following towns: Gryfino, Zdunowo, Trzebiatów, Stargard, Chlebowo, Śmierdnica, Kobylanka, Daleszewo, Kliniska, Sobieradz, Goleniów, Łobez, Żelisławiec, Gardno, Dobra. In total, 7,134 soldiers were buried in the cemetery, including 1,220 known and 5,914 unknown soldiers. In the years 1972–1974 the cemetery was rebuilt according to a design by Witold Andrzejewski. In 2013, the renovation of the plates with the names of the buried soldiers began.
Lapidarium of former German inhabitants of Gryfino - established at the turn of 1994/1995. Tombstones from the area of the present cemetery, former inhabitants of Gryfino and the surrounding area were collected there. The lapidarium is not finished, expansion is still underway. When creating the lapidarium, Gryfino cooperates with the Association "Heimatkreis Greifenhagen" in Bersenbruck (Lower Saxony).
A symbolic grave-monument called the Golgotha of the East - on the occasion of the National Independence Day - on November 11, 1995, a grave was unveiled - a memorial to Poles who did not return from Siberia, were murdered in the USSR and Polish soldiers who died on the fronts of World War II. The monument was created on the initiative of activists from the Gryfino circle of the Siberian Association.
City Park Stanisława Siarkiewicz - established at the beginning of the 19th century as a cemetery. Until the 1960s, there were neoclassical tombs in the park, built on the model of Greek and Old Roman temples. Today's park covers an area of 6.02 hectares with mainly deciduous trees. On one of the alleys there is an erratic boulder with a plaque dedicated to the park's patron - a Gryfino teacher, poet, painter, nature lover. There is also a playground for children.