Village church Kampehl, Village church in Kampehl, Germany.
The Dorfkirche Kampehl is a single-nave fieldstone church built in the mid-13th century, with a steep tiled roof and a square wooden tower clad in vertical grey boards rising above it. Two early Gothic windows on the north side keep their brick surrounds; the west portal and the three-window group in the east wall were given segmental arches around 1790. Inside, a wooden beam ceiling spans the nave.
The nave of this fieldstone church was built in the mid-13th century. The roof turret above the massive west wall is timber-framed and its timbers were dated to 1436. Around 1790 the west portal and most windows were altered to segmental arches, while two early Gothic windows with brick surrounds survive on the north side.
The church is the parish church of Kampehl, part of the Gesamtkirchengemeinde Neustadt (Dosse) in the Prignitz church district of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz. In the crypt, renewed in the 19th century, lies the mummy of Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz, a local nobleman, which visitors come to see.
The church stands in Kampehl, a district of Neustadt (Dosse) in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin area. The fieldstone walls, the wooden tower with its small round clock and the stone memorial in front of the wall are all visible from the outside. Interior access, including the 19th-century crypt with the mummy of Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz, depends on the parish; ask the Gesamtkirchengemeinde Neustadt (Dosse) before planning a visit.
The wooden roof turret behind the massive west wall was dated by its timbers to 1436, making it older than most of the church's furnishings. Inside, the crypt renewed in the 19th century holds the mummy of Christian Friedrich von Kahlbutz, a local nobleman.
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