Village church Kranepuhl, Parish church in Kranepuhl, Germany.
Dorfkirche Kranepuhl is a rectangular stone church with a brick roof and is entered through a small arched stone door. The structure displays typical field stone architecture with later additions from various periods.
The church was built in the 13th century from field stone and underwent changes in the 16th century. A new wooden and brick roof tower was added during renovation work in 1993.
The village of Kranepuhl first appears in records in 1304 as "ville in cranepuhl" and in 1311 as a church village, so the church has shaped local identity for over seven centuries. East of the building, a monument commemorates the fallen of the two World Wars.
The church stands southwest of the crossroads where Dorfstraße and Belziger Straße meet, on ground rising to the north, within a churchyard enclosed by a wall of uncut fieldstones. The village lies in the Planetal municipality of Potsdam-Mittelmark. The building itself is kept locked outside services.
The east wall is windowless and straight, and its lower fieldstones were probably laid in 1819/1820 after the apse was demolished; above sits a half-timbered gable with a small high rectangular window set slightly to the south. The south wall measures 14.10 m, the north wall 14.45 m, the east wall 9.20 m and the west wall 9.00 m.
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