Stołczyn (; German until 1945: ) is an administrative neighbourhood forming a subdivision of the North district in the city of Szczecin, Poland. It is a loosely-urbanised residential area, predominantly featuring single-family detached homes, with apartment buildings also present. The area also includes industrial buildings. The neighbourhood features the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Gothic Roman Catholic parish church, which was built in the 13th century, and later rebuilt and expanded in the 15th and 18th centuries. It also includes the Szczecin Stołczyn railway station. The neighbourhood has an area of 12.6 km<sup>2</sup>, and in 2025, was inhabited by 4,895. Its mainland portion is placed on the west coast of the West Oder river. Off its coast, it also includes the northern half of the island of Dębina, as well as the Duck Island, Seagull Island, and Żurawi Ostrów, bordered to the west by Dąbie lake. Neither of the islands are inhabited. Additionally, the area also includes the historic neighbourhoods of Glinki and Kraśnica.
Stołczyn was founded in the 13th century as a farming community, and by the early 20th century, developed into an industrial area, merging with the nearby villages of Glinki and Kraśnica. The area was incorporated into the city in 1939.
Toponomy
The Polish name Stołczyn comes from its former German name, Stolzenhagen. It came from words Stolz meaning "pride", and Hagen from Middle High German meaning "enclosure".
In the 13th century, a Roman Catholic church, now known as the Church of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was built in Stołczyn. It was originally owned by the Cistercian female monastery in Szczecin, and later by the Carthusian monastery in Grabowo (Grabow). In the 15th century, it was rebuilt in the Gothic style, and was later expanded in the 1720s in the Baroque style. Its denomination was changed to the Lutheranism in the 16th century during the Protestant Reformation, and was returned to the former in 1946. The church was renovated in 1982, with its Gothic elements being restored.
At the end of the 14th century, majority of the land of the village was owned by the Carthusian monastery in Grabowo, while other sizable portion belonged to the Church of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Stołczyn and the Cistercian monastery in Szczecin. A small portion was also owned by landowners from Szczecin. It remained in such state until the first half of the 16th century. Following the Protestant Reformation, Stołczyn became part of the estate of the Duke of Pomerania. The village was heavily demerged during the Thirty Years' War, and was rebuilt in the 18th century.
In 1897, the Kraft ironworks was founded at the current 10 Nad Odrą Street in Kraśnica, being owned by Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, a nobleman, industrial magnate, and one of the wealthiest people in the world at the time. In 1945, it became a state-owned enterprise of the Polish goverment, under the name Huta Szczecin (). In 1996, it became a private company. It was closed down in 2008, and demolished in 2009.
thumb|250px|The Szczecin Stołczyn railway station, opened in 1898
In 1898, the Szczecin Stołczyn railway station, originally named Stolzenhagen-Kratzwieck was opened on the current Kolejowa Street, as part of the line between Szczecin Main Station and Trzebież.
In the late 1920s, a housing estate of Randsiedlung () was built in the area of current Ludgardy, Kolonistów, Do Dworu Streets as an extension of the neighbourhood of Stołczyn. In the 1930s, a housing estate of Nockshöhe, in the area of the current intersection of the Szosy Polskiej and Ostoi-Zagórskiego Streets. Both neighbourhoods consisted of single-family detached and semi-detached homes, and became together known as Stołczyn Zachodni (West-Stolzenhagen). The neighbourhood became part of the Police Enclave, an area of the occupation, which while officially part of the territory of Poland, was administrated as part of the Randow District in the Soviet occupation zone in Germany. It was created to facilitate the removal of the machinery and resources of the Hydrierwerke Pölitz AG factory in the nearby Police, and its transportation to the Soviet Union. Over 20,000 workers and prisoners of war from Germany worked on the project in the Police Enclave, while Polish population was not allowed to settle in the area. Its southern portion, including Stołczyn and its surroundings, was abolished on 19 July 1946, and subsequently incorporated into the city. Following the end of the conflict, the German population either fled or was expelled from Szczecin, and was replaced by Polish settlers, who begun moving in to Stołczyn following its incorporation. In 1945, Stołczyn, previously known in German as Stolzenhagen, became known by Polish population as Stolec, and was later officially renamed in 1946 to its current name. After 1945, the new housing of the neighbourhood of Bukowo near Stołczyn Zachodni, with both becoming conjoined.
From 1955 to 1976, the neighbourhood of Glinki-Stołczyn formed one of the administrative subdivisions of the Nad Odrą district. In 1960, it had the population of 6,595 people. On 28 November 1990, the neighbourhood of Stołczyn was established as one of the administrative subdivisions of the North district, being governed by an elected neighbourhood council. It incorporated the neighbourhoods of Stołczyn, Glinki, and Kraśnica, as well as the northern half of the island of Dębina, as well as the Duck Island, Seagull Island, and Żurawi Ostrów. The area of Stołczyn Zachodni was incorporated into the neighbourhood of Bukowo.
Characteristics
thumb|250px|The Nehringa Street Park in Stołczyn, with a [[lapidarium in place of a former 19th-century cemetery.]]
Stołczyn is a loosely-urbanised residential area, predominantly featuring single-family detached homes, with apartment buildings also present. It also includes the historic nieghbourhoods of Glinki and Kraśnica. The former is located in the area of the current Nad Odrą, Golęcińska, Nehringa, and Księżnej Dąbrówki Streets, and the later, in the area of Nad Odrą and Kościelna Streets. The area also includes industrial buildings.
The neighbourhood also includes the Hutnik Szczecin association football club, based at 69 Nehringa Street. Founded in 1949, and is currently competes in the Regional Leaque, it previously also competed in the Third and Fourth Leagues. The neighbourhood has the total area of 12.6 km<sup>2</sup> (4.9 sq mi).