Trzebiatów - Kościół Macierzyństwa Najświętszej Marii Panny

The area at the river Rega was the site of a Wendish settlement in the 9th century. After the Pomeranian rulers had invited German settlers Trzebiatów (= Treptow) obtained town rights in 1277. In 1416, the town became part of the Hanseatic League, then served as a trade post and developed architecturally, with a typical Brick Gothic-style influence. From 1648 the town was part of Brandenburg-Prussia, the later Kingdom of Prussia.

In 1504, Johannes Bugenhagen moved to the town and became Rector of the local school. In December 1534 a diet was assembled here, where the Dukes Barnim XI and Philip I as well as the nobility officially introduced Lutheranism to Pomerania, against the vote of the Prince-Bishop of Cammin. In the following month Bugenhagen drafted the new church order, founding the Pomeranian Lutheran church.

The church existed here since the beginning of the 13th century. The present church was built at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries.

Since the Reformation it served as a Protestant town church.

After the flight and expulsion of the German population at the end of WWII, it again became a Catholic church.