One of the few churches that are not always locked, this one was open when I visited. The neo-Gothic church dates from the 15th century and stands on the site of an older church from the 13th century. In the 17th century and in 1842 it was rebuilt.
The Protestant village church was forcibly expropriated by the Polish administration in 1945 in favour of the Polish Catholic Church and 'reconsecrated' by the Polish Catholic clergy.
Until 1945, the majority of the population was of Protestant denomination. Groß Garde was a parish village and parish for the parish of Gambin. The villages of Dominke, Klein Garde, Kuhnhof, Lankwitz, Rotten, Stojentin, Wendisch Buckow (1939–45 Buchenstein), Wittbeck, Wittstock and Wusseken were also part of the parish.
The rectory in Groß Garde burned down twice: in 1692 and on 27 November 1772. Each time, valuable church files and documents were lost.
Before 1945, the parish of Groß Garde belonged to the church district of Stolp-Altstadt in the eastern district of the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union. In 1940 it had 2703 parishioners. The stock of church records went back to 1700.
The Polish population, which has been present since 1945 and the expulsion of the local villagers, is predominantly Catholic. The village is incorporated as a parish into the deanery of Główczyce in the diocese of Pelplin of the Catholic Church in Poland.