Neschholz Fieldstone Church

The Protestant village church of Neschholz is a Romanesque country church in the Neschholz district of Bad Belzig in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district of Brandenburg. It belongs to the Mörz parish in the Mittelmark-Brandenburg parish of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesia Upper Lusatia.

The small late Romanesque hall building made of well-squared field stones consists of a nave with a relatively deep apse and a neo-Baroque half-timbered roof tower with a tail hood and an octagonal lantern. A vestibule from 1907/1909 completes the rectangular church in the west. The apse is covered by a half-shell roof with smooth tiles, the nave is covered with a gable roof.

Construction began in the first half of the 13th century. Changes to the arched windows and the priest's portal indicate renovation work in the second half of the 16th century. The shield of the nave wall is bricked and plastered. The tops of the walls were probably raised with bricks in 1867. In the same year, most of the original arched windows in the apse were fitted with frames made of the same stone. Between 1907 and 1909, a thorough reconstruction took place. The roof tower was reconstructed and the vestibule was added.

Whether the masonry of the west gable continued in the earlier roof tower cannot be ascertained. Today's brick and half-timbered annex cuts off the highest part of the west gable and probably dates from the 18th century. Both turret elements, the rear hood and lantern, have tail roofs with smooth tiles. The weather vane above the last cone contains an engraving from 1908. The vestibule attached to the west side of the tower has a lower structure of two layers of field stone and above brickwork. Its gables are half-timbered, the western gable under the roof turret is connected by a counter roof with a bat dormer.