ChurchSchwedt - Zützen

Zützen Church

Zützen Church

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The village church Zützen is an Evangelical church in the Zützen district of the city of Schwedt/Oder in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg. The church belongs to the Uckermark church district of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.

Architecture+

The small church consists of only one nave, whose walls are built of fieldstones, and a low-pitched gable roof. On the west side there is a stepped gable and the north wall has a semicircular patron's box access. Two lancet windows with a small circular window are found in the east wall and a pointed arch portal on the south side. Inside there is a wooden beam ceiling, a west gallery and a wooden pulpit.

History+

The building was erected in the second half of the 13th century. Both the wooden beam ceiling and the west gallery date from 1695. Around 1830, the stepped gable was added and the north access was created at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Source: Wikipedia · Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image: Rauenstein · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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