Village Church Dreiluetzow, Wittendoerp, Germany, Medieval church in Dreilützow, Germany.
Dorfkirche Dreilützow is a late Gothic hall church of two bays, built of rough fieldstone with brick-framed windows, portals and a gable decorated with blind panels. In front of the west side stands a square wooden tower clad in horizontal boards, with a shallow pyramidal roof, cross and sphere finial; a small lean-to entrance sits at its base. The nave has a steep red-tiled roof and brick bands across the stone walls.
The church was probably built at the beginning of the 15th century as a rectangular fieldstone hall church with two bays; windows, portals and the decorated gable are in brick, as is the main cornice from the 18th century. The wooden west tower, probably also 18th-century, was partly dismantled and renewed after a lightning strike in 1973.
The church belongs to the Boizenburg-Wittenburg parish within the Parchim provostry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany. Its 1732 wooden pulpit altar was separated from the rear wall and set up independently, with the pulpit basket standing apart beneath a segmental gable on Corinthian columns.
The church is best visited during regular worship times when it opens for services. Visitors should be respectful as it remains an active place of worship, though the exterior architecture and tower can be appreciated at any time from outside.
The organ was a gift from Heinrich Georg Döring, who commissioned it after six of his children died. Built around 1708, probably by Johann Heinrich Gloger and his brother Christoph, it served as the choir organ of St. Lamberti in Lüneburg, moved to Camin in 1801 and reached Dreilützow in 1853 when that church was rebuilt. Jehmlich restored it in 2004, reconstructing three stops.
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