Church St. Mariä Himmelfahrt

A Catholic parish was re-established in Schwedt after the Reformation only in 1853. It consisted of only a few local families and the Catholic garrison members. A garden restaurant was acquired on the edge of the former old town and its ballroom was converted into a church hall. The construction of today's representative church at the same location is largely due to the initiative and financial support of Schwedt city councilor and honorary citizen Clemens Ortmeyer. Since 2003, the former Angermünde parish with its Mariä-Himmelfahrt-Kirche also belongs to the Catholic parish of Schwedt.

Max Hasak designed the church in Neo-Gothic style with forms of North German Brick Gothic. The nave is a tall, single-aisled, vaulted hall only two bays long. This is adjoined by a transept with decorative gables on both sides and rose windows (designed in 2013 by glass artist Thomas Kuzio) and the chancel with a polygonal rear wall. The opposite end is formed by the towering, transversely rectangular tower block, which carries a slender roof turret.

The interior was originally richly furnished with Neo-Gothic figures and murals. A bomb hit on April 18, 1945, and the redesign in the years 1969–71 according to a design by Friedrich Press created a space centered on the new celebration altar, which had been perceived as aesthetically and liturgically inadequate since the 1980s. During the renovation and restoration from 1997 to 1999, the original spatial effect was re-established, primarily by restoring the chancel. Some furnishings are older than the church: the central Crucifixus (1580), a Pietà (14th century) and an Anna selbdritt (1490). The stained glass windows were created in 1964. The church received the Stations of the Cross by Hans Schindler in 1980, and the Sauer organ in 1988.

Since the confiscation of the first peal (Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, 1901) in the First World War, the church tower remained without bells. On July 30, 2021, a four-part bronze peal in the Salve Regina motif was cast again by the Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock foundry in Gescher, which rang for the first time on December 24, 2021.