Marienkirche, Lutheran church in Wendeburg, Germany

Marienkirche is a Lutheran church in the center of Wendeburg, distinguished by a prominent tower bearing a medieval consecration tablet at about 5 meters high. The building combines historical architecture with modern facilities for worship and visitors.

The church began as the chapel of Winetheborg, a small fortified castle founded in the 12th or 13th century where the old military road from Braunschweig to Celle crossed the Aue. A stone tablet set about five metres up the tower records the church's re-consecration after a major rebuild, showing the Crucified with Mary and John and, below, a praying founder couple with a coat of arms and the year 1439. In 1770 the nave was lengthened and raised for the growing congregations of Wendeburg, Wendezelle and Zweidorf.

The parish keeps a Bible bought in 1650, still in its possession, and rings a bronze bell cast in 1714 by Christian Ludewig Meyer. The churchyard holds the 1827 parsonage, where the writer Konrad Beste was born on 15 April 1890. His father Paul Beste and grandfather Wilhelm Beste both served as pastors here.

The church stands in the centre of Wendeburg, where the old military road from Braunschweig to Celle once crossed the Aue. The nave was lengthened and raised in 1770 to fit the growing congregations of Wendeburg, Wendezelle and Zweidorf. In 1963 the box pews installed in 1770 were removed, the hard benches replaced with more comfortable seating and a new organ installed. The tower carries a clock with a black face and gold details below the slate roof.

A stone tablet on the church tower displays carved figures of Christ, Mary, John, and a noble founder couple kneeling in prayer at their feet. This depiction is a rare example of the connection between religious and secular power structures in medieval times.