We consider a modification of the Winter model describing a quantum particle in presence of a spherical barrier given by a fixed generalized point interaction. It is shown that the three classes of such interactions correspond to three different types of asymptotic behaviour of resonances of the model at high energies.Models with contact interactions are popular because they allow us to study properties of quantum systems in a framework which makes explicit solutions possible. It was found in the beginning of the eighties that the usual δ interaction on the line has a counterpart, named not quite fortunately δ ′ , and a little later the complete four-parameter class of the generalized point interactions (GPI's) was introduced [1,2]. Properties of these interactions are now well understood -see [3] for a rather complete bibliography.The GPI's fall into different classes according to their behaviour at low and high energies. The most simple manifestation can be found in scattering. While a δ-type barrier behaves as a "usual" regular potential becoming transparent at high energies, the δ ′ -like one on the contrary decouples asymptotically in the same limit. In addition, there is an intermediate class for which both the reflection and transmission amplitudes have nonzero limits as the energy tends to zero or infinity [4]. Furthermore, in Kronig-Penney-type models describing periodic arrays of such interactions, the indicated classes differ by the gap behaviour at high energies; this has important consequences for spectral nature of the corresponding Wannier-Stark systems [5,6].