Dorfkirche Orpensdorf, Baroque church building in Orpensdorf, Germany

Dorfkirche Orpensdorf is a small late-baroque stuccoed hall church built in 1747 to plans by Friedrich Wilhelm Diterichs. The pink-rendered west tower, slightly tapered at the top, carries a curved baroque hood with a weather vane bearing the crest of patron Katharina Kraatz. The interior is an octagonal hall with a flat ceiling, a painted tetragram in a ray wreath on the cove, and a wooden pulpit altar on the north side.

Built in 1747 to plans by Friedrich Wilhelm Diterichs, Berlin architect and squire of Orpensdorf, the church is a late-baroque hall building. Its core is a central plan, made to read as a directional church by the west tower and an eastern annex with crypt and patron's box above. The exterior was restored in 1997, the roof, facade and base by the end of 2020.

The church is to be used as a wedding church after restoration. On the weather vane of the west tower sits the heraldic animal of patron Katharina Kraatz. The epitaph for Katharina Kraatz (died 1768), her two husbands and two further grave monuments from 1782 and 1805 stand at the east annex.

The church stands in Orpensdorf, a village part of Osterburg in the Altmark. The south portal opens the building; the west tower with its green copper dome and the low brick wall in front are the landmarks to look for. Interior restoration is planned, so the octagonal hall may not always be open.

The weather vane atop the tower carries the heraldic animal of the patron Katharina Kraatz, who died in 1768. Her sandstone epitaph, crowned by a vase and bearing an inscription and coat of arms, sits in the niche of the east annex above the crypt portal, flanked by two matching monuments to Friderike Charlotte von Barsewisch and Katharina Dorothea Hedwig Luise von Kleist.