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Gmina Rakoniewice
Osiedle Parkowe 1
62-067 Rakoniewice
Tel.: 61 444 10 02
E-mail: sekretariat@rakoniewice.pl
NIP: 995-01-98-613
Regon: 631259324
The church was built in 1662 for German colonists who settled down in the neighbourhood and founded the town Freystadt - modern Rakoniewice. The German colonists were mainly Lutherans and called themselves Augsburgians.
The timber-frame structure of the church was built from wood from neighbouring forests and clay. The church, which was built in haste and of perishable material, had to be renovated only twenty years later.
The church was surrounded by a churchyard. In the late 18th century there was no more free space in the churchyard, and a new Evangelical graveyard was built to the north of the town centre.
In 1781 a tower was added to the church - earlier, the regulations forbade construction of towers in Evangelical churches. The wooden boarded square tower was added to the original rectangular nave from the west. The tower has a clock with an original mechanism from 1781. The roof and the cupola of the tower are covered with shingle. The cupola of the tower with bells ends with a spire.
The structure of the building is made of wooden beams arranged vertically, horizontally and sometimes askew, and the space between them is filled with bricks or clay. When clay was used, the space between the beams was additionally filled with vertical wooden stakes, and the clay was mixed with oats or another binding material. Today, there are not many such timber-frame buildings left, because after the Second World War, for a long time, their wooden parts were not properly maintained, maybe because they reminded of the German origin of the buildings. Timber-frame construction was a traditional method of construction in Pomerania for many centuries. The few preserved little towns and villages are a big tourist attraction now.
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Kontakt
Gmina Rakoniewice
Osiedle Parkowe 1, 62-067 Rakoniewice
Tel.: 61 444 10 02
E-mail: sekretariat@rakoniewice.pl
NIP: 995-01-98-613
Regon: 631259324