Road Cycling Highlight
Recommended by 8 road cyclists
Location: Casekow, Uckermark, Brandenburg, Germany
Rectangular field stone church with a rectangular west tower, from the middle of the 13th century. The square tower with a tapered wooden bell floor as well as a hood and lantern dates from 1735, as does the weather vane and the crowning of the tower.
August 5, 2019
The church is a large fieldstone church with a flat roof, rectangular plan, on a sloping base and with a 45-meter ship-wide west tower, built in the mid to second half of the 13th century. Seriously damaged during the Thirty Years' War, it was then rebuilt. The high tower with a hood, a lantern and a weather vane with an angel and the "GLORIA" banner was built in 1732-1735 on the initiative of the patron of the church, Carl Friedrich von Sydow Jr. installed and restored during renovation in a colored version as agreed. Previously, the walls inside the nave were strengthened to accommodate the additional load. At the end of the 17th century, a southern porch with a staircase to the patron's box was added. All window openings were replaced with arched ones, the original ogival portals and the windows were partially bricked up. During the GDR era, the hereditary burial place on the northern wall of the tower was demolished. In the 1960s, the entrance and passage to the patron's box were closed and the southern part of the gallery was shortened. The parish also had the right and left choir areas completely cleaned. The pulpit emerged from the altar, slightly raised on the northern wall. Carved bas-reliefs were attached to the pulpit, which come from a no longer existing pulpit from 1695. The church was included on the list of monuments in 1984, but renovation was carried out only in the years 1998–2001.
November 7, 2023
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