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Conservation conducted in the collegiate church in Kruszwica in the course of the last two centuries was the outcome of two different artistic conceptions. The 1856— 1859 restoration, performed according to the principle of unity (purity) of style, was applied only in reference to the outer solid of the church (the outfitting of the interior remained Baroque). In the political situation of the period, the scientific milieu and society considered the enhancement of the collegiate church with numerous brick detail, foreign to Romanesque architecture from the first half of the twelfth century, as a tendentious attempt at endowing the church with features of a “Prussian” neo-Gothic. Postwar work, performed in 1954-1956, aimed at an intentional archaisation of the interior, which corresponded to the conception of modernist aesthetics, launched at the time. The designed Romanesque interior, displaying the texture of the walls, does not reflect the atmosphere of a Romanesque church, which offered the faithful of the Early Middle Ages a whole gamut of bright hues and opulent detail.