Kościół pw. Świętego Ducha, Konin
Facts and practical information
Holy Spirit Church in Konin - is located in the former Kolski Suburb on Kolska Street, on the axis of 3 Maja Street.
Kolskie Suburb was also called Holy Spirit Suburb after the name of the patron of the local hospital church, which was established in 1422. In 1801, a new wooden church was built on this site, which was purchased in 1824 by the Lutheran community. The current church, which is located slightly south of the previous church, was built between 1853 and 1854. The tower was added in 1872. Its current appearance in the style of Rhineland Neo-Romanesque was given to it during renovations in 1906-1909.
The one-nave church was built of unplastered red brick. The nave is covered with a gable roof decorated with two rows of brick pinnacles. The same pinnacles decorate the façade of the porch and the ridge of the nave. Above the porch an octagonal bell tower covered with a slender pyramidal cupola.
The interior is single space, maintained in white tones. The nave is illuminated by large, semicircular windows, surrounded on three sides by free-standing, one-storey galleries supported by slender Corinthian columns. The nave's roofing is very original; ceiling beams composed of semicircular segments divide it into 15 square fields filled with hemispherical bowls. In the presbytery there is a wooden neo-Romanesque altar with the image of the Teaching Christ and a pulpit in a similar style. On the choir there is a neo-gothic organ bought in 1959 from the former Emperor Frederick III Evangelical church in Polanica-Zdrój, made by the organ-maker Schlag & Söhne of Świdnica.
An ornamental iron fence surrounds the church from the side of Kolska Street. Next to the church there is a historic pastor's house from 1840.
Kościół pw. Świętego Ducha – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Kościół pw. św. Bartłomieja, Kościół pw. św. Wojciecha, Kościół pw. św. Apostołów Piotra i Pawła, Cmentarz wojskowy.