Dorfkirche Lichterfelde, Medieval church in Lichterfelde, Germany

The Dorfkirche Lichterfelde is a fieldstone hall church with a rectangular base of irregular brown, grey and reddish stones. A dark wooden tower with a two-tiered pyramidal roof and three slatted openings rises on its right side, next to a white-walled section with a steep red-tiled roof. Inside, white walls and grey beamed ceilings frame light blue pews along a striped aisle runner.

The village of Lichterfelde was probably founded around 1230 by descendants of Flemish settlers as a street-anger village. The first church was likely of wood; the present fieldstone hall church dates from the first half of the 14th century. Damaged down to its outer walls in the Thirty Years' War, it stood unused until 1701, when Daniel Ludolf von Danckelman financed its restoration with a Baroque plaster skin and the first timber-framed roof turret. In 1895 the east gable was moved a few metres east to enlarge the nave.

The village of Lichterfelde was probably founded around 1230 by descendants of Flemish settlers, and the church's name still carries the old spelling "Lichtervelde". Inside, a wooden board displays hymn numbers, and the pews are painted light blue. The building is a listed monument and remains in use by the Protestant congregation.

The church stands on the village green (Anger) of the old street village founded around 1230. The 1776 burial chapel with the von Bülow coat of arms adjoins the north wall, and the 1789 von Béguelin chapel forms the west porch; the medieval pointed-arch west portal now lies hidden between porch and nave. The tower was renovated in 2000.

The weathervane atop the tower carries a crane, the heraldic animal of Daniel Ludolf von Danckelman, who financed the 1701 rebuild and the first timber tower. Knob, vane and star still come from that first tower; the wooden structure itself was rebuilt in 1734 and renovated in 2000.