Village Church of Zützen

The church was built in the 15th century as a stone church with a wooden tower. 1710 was redesigned in the style of the Baroque.

The village church Zützen is the church building in the village of Zützen in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg. The building belongs to the parish of Zützen in the Dahme-Berste-Land parish and is part of the Lower Lusatia parish in the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. It is registered as an architectural monument under the official name of the village church and churchyard with churchyard wall, tombs, Kleist's family grave and war memorial.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfkirche_Z%C3%BCtzen_(Gol%C3%9Fen)p.s. Komoot does not include the ")" in the link, it still has to be inserted manually.

The church was built in the 15th century as a rectangular stone building. The heavy, plastered west tower, not connected to the ship, was only added in 1769/70. The altarpiece dates from 1710. On the south wall of the church there is also a splendid grave monument for Karl Wilhelm v. Kleist († 1766) and his wife Eva Eleonore Louise († 1813), which was probably executed around 1770/80. Other grave monuments can be seen on the outside of the church: next to the south portal are memorial stones for E. Maximiliane Greiffenhagen († 1820) as well as for her brother-in-law, the preacher Christian Friedrich Zehe († 1820) and his wife Sophie Dorothea († 1812) a total of four historical tombstones (2nd half of the 17th century) and other tombstones of the Kleist family.