Church in Zaschendorf, Medieval church in Kuhlen-Wendorf, Germany.

The Church in Zaschendorf is a small timber-framed hall church with a three-sided choir, built at the end of the 17th century on the village centre north of the Warnow. A squat square roof turret with sound openings and a cross sits at the west end of the ridge; the windows are small, square and leaded, and the south door is very low. The nave collapsed in August 1991 and was rebuilt and rededicated in 1993.

The village of Zaschendorf was first documented in 1320 as Saszkendorp sunt III mansi in a tithe register fragment of the Bishopric of Schwerin. In 1344 Count Nikolaus von Schwerin, called Pyst, granted the village and high jurisdiction to the knight Raven von Barnekow. The half-timbered church itself was built around the end of the 17th century; after decades of neglect the nave collapsed in August 1991, and the rebuilt church was reconsecrated in 1993.

The village church is a timber-framed hall church with a three-sided choir, built around the end of the 17th century. Its pulpit from the mid-17th century shows the four Evangelists with Low German inscriptions, and the gallery carries 16 painted panels of Christ, John the Baptist, the apostles and Moses. The altarpiece, a triptych made around 1492, came probably from the chapel of the wool weavers' guild beside the Georgenkirche in Wismar.

The church stands at the centre of Zaschendorf, north of the Warnow, in the municipality of Kuhlen-Wendorf. The south side holds the plain wooden entrance door, whose head height is very low, so mind your head when entering. The small leaded lattice windows sit high in the half-timbered walls.

The altar shrine is older than the church itself: stylistic and archival evidence points to its creation around 1492, probably from the chapel of the wool-weavers' guild beside the Georgenkirche tower in Wismar. It shows the Annunciation between eight saints, with one figure missing, and its severely damaged wing paintings illustrate the legend of Saint Severus, captioned in Low German.