St. Mary and St. Andrew

The Protestant Church of St. Mary and Andrew is a Gothic brick church located in Rathenow, in the district of Havelland in the state of Brandenburg. It belongs to the parish of Rathenow, in the Nauen-Rathenow church district of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesia in Upper Lusatia and is also known as the Rathenow City Church. After severe destruction during the Second World War, the restoration is not yet complete. It can be visited by appointment at the municipal office.
The current church building in late Romanesque style dates from the early 13th century and was already built of brick. It was a cross-shaped pillared basilica with a short nave, a presumably square choir with a main apse, and a transverse rectangular west tower. Only parts of the transept of this structure have been preserved. The new building began in the second half of the fourteenth century and included the ambulatory choir of the hall with a polygonal end composed of seven sides of a dodecagon. Two chapels on the right bay of the choir also date from this phase of construction. In the years 1517 to 1562, according to an inscription on the northwest portal, the nave was converted into a hall church in late Gothic style by the master Andreas Lindemann, in which the walls of the aisles were aligned with the old transept facades.

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