Village Church Oehna

The church was from 1522 to 1523 the workplace of the clergyman and reformer Paul of Rhoda. He was driven out of Jüterbog and sent to Szczecin in 1523 by Martin Luther.

Open church. early Gothic, from the 13th century
The church has been redesigned and expanded several times. The present form is from 1873. At the southwest corner is a chessboard.

1195 the place appears as Oyne for the first time. This unusual name is a transfer, probably by Dutch settlers, from Oeine on the Maas.
The church is a simple 13th-century rectangular hall built of the typical regular fieldstone masonry of the period. In the east, the remains of a three-window group can still be seen. Otherwise, the building's appearance was significantly altered in 1873, when the neo-Gothic brick tower was added to the west and the windows were enlarged.
In 1997 the exterior of the church was restored.Source askanier-welten.de/dorfkirchen/oehna