St. Peter and Paul Wusterhausen, Gothic church in Wusterhausen/Dosse, Germany.

St. Peter and Paul is a three-aisled, three-bay hall church with a single-bay ambulatory choir, built of brick with fieldstone sections. Its massive rectangular west tower has side rooms and a large west window but no west entrance. Parts of the transept walls of the mid-13th-century granite predecessor survive, and the Marienkapelle with its stepped gable adjoins the south side.

The first church was built in the mid-13th century, probably a cruciform basilica of cut granite blocks; parts of the transept walls and its north portal survive. Around 1300 the tower base and brick portals followed, and in the 14th century the nave was rebuilt as a brick hall church. The choir was vaulted in 1474 and consecrated in 1479; the Marienkapelle was added at the end of the 15th century.

Late Gothic wall paintings from the last quarter of the 15th century survive in the church: an Anna selbdritt in a painted frame on the east wall of the choir, the beheading of Saint Catherine on two pillars in the south, and Mary Magdalene in Renaissance dress, painted 1520/30, on the north side. The choir's red, multi-part pillars stand out against white walls and vaults.

The church is an open church, so it is normally accessible without prior arrangement. The main entrance is on the west side beneath the massive tower, which has no west doorway but a large west window; visitors enter through the side rooms flanking the tower. The interior is reached from the nave, with the choir and the Marienkapelle to the south.

The tower lost its original spire to a lightning strike in 1764 and has carried a provisional roof ever since. The vault of the tower hall, destroyed at the same time, was only rebuilt in 1993/94. Look up at the west tower to see the unfinished second storey with its slender blind arcading.