The citizens of Szczecin built the Cathedral of St. James the Apostle, modeled on St. Mary's Church in Lübeck. It was established in 1187 and built over the 12th to 14th centuries, with the main building completed in the 14th century. The article names no architect. The infobox gives Gothic as the style, though the text calls the original building Romanesque.
A storm collapsed one tower in 1456, and the church was rebuilt as a single-tower hall church by 1503. The Scanian War destroyed it in 1677, and Baroque rebuilding followed from 1690 to 1693. The west tower collapsed in 1894, and the spire was completed in 1901.
Air raids in August 1944 collapsed the spire and damaged much of the building. Reconstruction ran from 1971 to about 1974 without a spire, and a neo-baroque flèche was added in 2010.
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