St Hedwig's Church, Catholic parish church in Jüterbog, Germany
St Hedwig's Church is a Catholic parish church in Jüterbog with a single-nave hall design, exposed roof trusses, and cross-ribbed vaulting in the southern choir section. The building connects to the Tetzel Chapel and stands behind the parish house at Große Straße 86.
Construction of the church began in 1893 following population growth triggered by the relocation of an artillery school from Berlin to Jüterbog. The building received its status as an independent parish church in 1962.
The three choir windows by Egbert Lammers, installed in 1940, show Saints Joseph, Hedwig and Barbara. They replaced windows from 1933 by Hannes Schulz-Tattenbach that the congregation rejected as "unfitting and tasteless". The Tetzel Chapel, named after the Dominican Johann Tetzel who sold indulgences in Jüterbog in 1517, holds a 17th-century painting of the Coronation of Mary by the Trinity, on loan from the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
The church sits behind the parish house on Große Straße 86 and is easily accessible from the street. The building shares its location with the neighboring Tetzel Chapel, forming a connected religious complex.
The organ was built by Ernst Röver at the end of the 19th century and has seven registers on a single manual, with a neo-Gothic case. The three choir windows behind the altar were made in 1940 by Egbert Lammers and show Saints Joseph, Hedwig and Barbara; the earlier windows by Hannes Schulz-Tattenbach, installed in 1933, were rejected by the congregation as unsuitable.
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