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Dorfkirche Schönhausen, Medieval church in Schönhausen, Germany.

Dorfkirche Schönhausen is a Romanesque brick basilica of six bays without a transept, 43 m long, 17.5 m wide and 34 m high, with a choir square, a semicircular apse and a massive rectangular west structure. Its carefully laid brickwork carries cross-arch, diamond and toothed friezes, and round-arch friezes on the west block. Inside, a slightly pointed barrel vault covers the choir and a half-dome the apse; the pulpit, font and blue-gold baroque altarpiece stand among painted pews.

The brick basilica was built around 1200–1210, probably by Dutch Premonstratensian settlers, and was consecrated on 7 November 1212 by Sigebodo von Havelberg to the Virgin Mary and Saint Willibrord. Swedish troops set fire to it in 1642 during the Thirty Years' War, badly damaging the tower from inside; rebuilding followed between 1660 and 1712 with support from August II von Bismarck. The Bismarck family acquired the Schönhausen estate in 1562 and became patrons of the church, where Otto von Bismarck was baptised on 15 May 1815.

The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saint Willibrord, and its parish belongs to the Evangelical Church in Central Germany. It is a station on the Straße der Romanik, the Romanesque Road, which brings visitors to the building. The sandstone font from the early 13th century, in which Otto von Bismarck was baptised on 15 May 1815, stands in the church.

The church is located directly in the village of Schönhausen and is easy to reach on foot, with clear visibility in the town center. Visitors should be aware that access and viewing may be tied to service times or local opening hours, so planning ahead is helpful.

The exterior brickwork carries numerous grooves and small bowl-shaped hollows, traditionally said to have been scraped by grateful parents after the birth of a child. Similar marks appear on the related village church at Melkow. The building is a station on the Straße der Romanik, the Romanesque Road through Saxony-Anhalt.

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