Dorfkirche Grube

The Dorfkirche Grube stands in Potsdam’s Grube district as a Protestant baroque church protected as a monument. Its simple plastered brick facade gives the building a restrained architectural presence.

The present hall church replaced an earlier structure in 1745 and 1746, after the original building dated from 1590. Three windows and pilasters shape each long side of the nave.

On the south side, the entrance sits beneath a shortened central window, while the eastern end has two openings. A tower continues the nave’s cornice and rises to a copper-clad dome above simple corner pilasters.

Shuttered sound openings occupy three sides of the upper tower floor. Inside, a pulpit altar belongs to the church’s construction period, alongside a bronze bell made in 1745.

Johann Christian Schultze of Berlin made the bell, while Potsdam builder Carl Eduard Gesell built the 1890 organ. The organ has six registers, one manual, and a pedal.

Repairs and restorations followed in several periods, including work from 1815 to 1890 and further restorations in 1985 and 1996. The church belongs to the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz, while its bell and organ share the building’s monument protection.