Purposeful post.

Here is a story: In a shoreside village Trzęsacz (previously called Hoff) in what is today Poland, there was a XIV-th century Gothic church. Dedicated to Saint Nicholas, it replaced the earlier 1124 wooden church, and was quite an opulent structure for a village.

Here is it’s interior. You can see it was fairly well equipped. With a triptych, choir stalls, and all.

And the outside shot, with a view of the shore.

But, today the church is no more, and only a single wall remains. How did that happen?

Well, the first tragedy struck in 1534 with the Trzebiatów Sejm announcing evangelicalism as the official religion in the West Pomerania region, causing the church to fall into heathen hands. It is safe to assume this heretical action sealed its fate.

Until 1818 it had a bell tower, but the tower was attracting thunders so much it had to be demolished. We can only assume it was God showing his discontent with the path this temple has taken. Some may say He was taking His time since it was almost three centuries after the change in denomination, but it’s not like He was in a hurry, and so the ultimate destruction that came after was painfully slow.

And it was facilitated through, one of the least impressive at the moment, but impressive over time forces of nature. Erosion.

While the Gothic structure from the latter part of XIV-th century was build 2 km (9,94 Furlongs for those still using Imperial) away from sea, in the 1870 photo above you can see that the distance drastically shortened. 1874 was the year the church was closed, and then over the years sea consumed it brick by brick (well probably multiple bricks at a time), until 1994 when, after a major collapse of the last remaining wall, the municipality decided to try and save what was left. In 2001 a construction company (called Stabilator, quite fitting) created a seawall at the bottom, and in 2002 the wall was reinforced with15 m rods, and anchors. So what’s left of the single wall remains to this day.

Interestingly Prussians actually tried to save the church in the past, as far as 1750, but with seemingly no success.

Church today.

As a sidenote, one local legends explaining the collapse says: A fishermen fishing in the sea nearby caught sea goddess Zielenica. Then local parish priest inprisoned her, and kept her captive until she died of sorrow. Following that the god Bałtyk, her father, tried to get her body back from the church cemetery by progressively eroding the ground.

It was obviously concocted by some locals, but for supposed Christians this legend is not very Christian at all.

Anyway that’s the story of the Trzęsacz Church.

You may be thinking, what is the point of this. Is this some fun fact Friday? And if so, where is the fun?

Well, you've got me.

I’m kind of an r-slur, and I did not know how to ask. Do Holes still expire in 7 days? I was sure it’s two weeks now, but the site guide says 7 days.

Because if they do this one is going to die tomorrow. And I know Florist of Carpathia, may be upset, and even dismayed that he didn’t get the name right (an honest mistake really could have happened to anyone), and may have given up on this place, but if this Hole outlives the imposter one I’m sure our Egyptian Overlord, might consider his plight for a name change.

So this post is just a glorified bump really. Also, 7 days or 14, can someone tell me?

Thank you in advance.

(also, Carp I know you are busy with the site being broken, and all, but I hope you haven't given up on this Hole that has a tremendous number of new posts (1 since creation) with tons of engagement (comment from Snappy), it's fall would be a great (symbolic) loss for Catholicism)

It looks like the Hole thing is not valid anymore, ignore it.