Witraże koszalińskiej katedry w świetle źródeł archiwalnych
Stained glass windows of the cathedral in Koszalin in the light of archival sources

Summary/Abstract: During many centuries of existence, the present church under the invocation of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Koszalin changed its architectural shape and the character of the interior. The principal changes in its architecture were mainly due to the extensive restorations and numerous renovation works with a smaller scope. The second important pre-war temple restoration, carried out in 1914, was connected with the creation of colored glazed windows of the presbytery, the nave and the side naves of the church. For nearly one hundred years the stained-glass windows of the cathedral in Koszalin remained anonymous. Only recently, the hundred-year-old files found in the church’s office revealed priceless facts from the point of view of research on stained glass of West Pomerania, concerning the process of creating these interesting works of art. In the preserved rich correspondence from 1914 and the beginning of 1915, we find information about the previously unknown cathedral performers, whose design and implementation, after a previous competition, was finally commissioned by Ferdinand Müller’s studio in Quedlinburg. Unknown church archives also reveal the client of the whole work, founder of the presbytery window and many details of the process of creating projects in the field of the overall concept and execution of stained glass. Above all, however, this significant group of documents, currently stored in the Archives of the Koszalin-Kolobrzeg (Kołobrzeg) Diocese, significantly supplements the catalog of stained glass windows drawn up by the German researchers by the studio in Quedlinburg.

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