St. Bartholomäus, Baroque church in Wesselburen, Germany.

St. Bartholomäus is a Baroque church in Wesselburen, built on a raised mound. Its round tower, encased in brick, and the choir sit under one large roof resembling a Haubarg, with a central roof turret topped by an onion dome. The west choir has a cut resembling a Baroque ship's stern.

After a devastating fire in 1736, Duke Carl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorf commissioned architect Johann Georg Schott to rebuild the church, completed in 1738. This reconstruction shaped the building's current Baroque appearance and design.

The sandstone font, carved in Westphalia in the second quarter of the 13th century, is the oldest artwork in Dithmarschen after the 11th-century Windberg crucifix. Its main reliefs were chiselled off, but the sloping edge keeps the four rivers of paradise as men holding fish and scrolls, a motif found on no other font in Schleswig-Holstein. It now stands apart from the choir without liturgical use.

The church stands on a raised mound (Wurt) at the highest point of Wesselburen, so the approach from the town centre involves a slight climb. It remains an active Evangelical-Lutheran parish church, so visits are best timed outside service hours. The interior is entered at ground level, but the historic building has no lift; ask the parish about step-free access before arriving.

The sandstone font, probably made in Westphalia in the second quarter of the 13th century, is the oldest artwork in Dithmarschen after the 11th-century Windberg crucifix. Its reliefs were chiselled off, but the sloping edge keeps a depiction of the four rivers of Paradise as four bare-chested men holding fish and scrolls, a motif found on no other font in Schleswig-Holstein.