Village church Marquardt, Romanesque Revival church in Marquardt, Germany

The Village Church Marquardt is an unplastered brick church built in 1900/1901 to plans by Berlin architect Adolf Stegmüller in the Romanesque Revival style. Its cross-shaped plan consists of a nave with a transept before the recessed, three-sided closed choir to the north and a tower to the south. It stands on a small hill in the village cemetery, which is enclosed by a fieldstone wall.

The church was built in 1900/1901 to replace a demolished predecessor, designed by the Berlin architect Adolf Stegmüller in Romanesque Revival style using unplastered brick on a cruciform plan at the edge of Schloss Marquardt park. The estate owner Dr. Louis von Bischoffshausen and his wife helped finance the new building, as an inscription on the gilded altar cross from 1901 records. Towards the end of the Second World War, Wehrmacht specialists blew up a nearby motorway bridge and the pressure wave damaged the windows, which were restored after the war.

The church belongs to the Töplitz parish in the Mittelmark-Brandenburg church district of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. Its 1901 altar cross carries a dedication from estate owner Dr. Louis von Bischoffshausen and his wife, who helped finance the new building. Below the church lies the Ravené family crypt with four zinc sarcophagi, restored in 2005.

The church stands at Hauptstraße 21 in the old village core, on a small hill within the cemetery enclosed by a fieldstone wall; Schloss Marquardt and its park are next door. The Schlänitzsee lies a few hundred metres west and the Sacrow-Paretzer Canal runs to the north. The slim tower is visible from the flat surrounding land.

Below the church lies the Ravené family crypt, holding four zinc coffins: Louis Auguste Ravené, owner of Marquardt Castle and patron of the church, his wife Martha, his son Enno and his son-in-law Heinz von Bardeleben. Two memorial plaques honour further family members; the coffins were restored in 2005.