Dorfkirche Badingen, Altmark, Village church in Badingen, Germany

The Dorfkirche Badingen is a Romanesque hall church built of fieldstone masonry, with a nearly square chancel and a massive west tower. The tower has a steep gable roof, a small clock face, and coupled pointed-arch sound openings of brick set into fieldstone openings. A dendrochronological date on the beam between nave and chancel gives 1187. The nave and chancel are covered with gable roofs.

The fieldstone church with its west transverse tower dates to the Romanesque period; the beam between nave and chancel was dendrochronologically dated to 1187. A major renovation in 1853 enlarged the windows, broke through the west portal, raised the outer walls and reduced the roof pitch. The late Gothic two-part churchyard gate of brick, with a round-arched passage and a segmental-arched pedestrian door, dates from around 1500.

The church is still used by the parish of Kläden in the Stendal church district of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany. A late Gothic brick churchyard gate from around 1500, with a round-arched carriage passage and a segmental-arched pedestrian door, opens the cemetery. In the west part of the cemetery wall is set the Badingen stone cross from around 1440.

The church stands in Badingen, part of Bismark (Altmark) in the Stendal district. The churchyard is entered through a late Gothic brick gate from around 1500, with a round-arched carriage passage and a segmental-arched pedestrian door. In the west section of the churchyard wall, look for the Badingen stone cross from around 1440.

The churchyard is entered through a late-Gothic two-part brick gate from around 1500, with a round-arched passage for vehicles and a segmental-arched gate for pedestrians. Set into the west section of the churchyard wall is the Badingen stone cross, carved around 1440.