The Great Tour of Vil­lage Churches

The Nieder­lausitz area has some of Bran­den­burg’s best-pre­served church land­scapes, and there are also still lots of well-main­tained churches in and around Guben. Visit the churches of var­i­ous peri­ods and styles, with­out a doubt some of the region’s archi­tec­tural high­lights and look­ing back on a long his­tory.
Start off at the tourist infor­ma­tion cen­tre in Guben. Fol­low the Oder-Neiße Cycle Path south­wards to Schlags­dorf. Here, turn west to reach Kerk­witz, the first stop on the tour. The foun­da­tion stone was laid in 1951, and a year later the Gus­tav-Adolf-Kirche church was opened. The church has fea­tured an organ from Göhlen since 1980, as well as some “talk­ing walls”. To get to Atter­wasch, cycle back to the rail­way under­pass and then onto Lake Deu­low­itzer See, a pop­u­lar bathing lake that is also well-suited to a get­away in a row­ing boat or a pedal boat. Con­tinue to Atter­wasch, a vil­lage with the region’s old­est church, built in 1220. The church’s foun­da­tion walls and its east­ern gable with a taber­na­cle and fres­cos above it were left stand­ing after the Thirty Years War. Around 1685 the church was rebuilt and con­se­crated again. The Grünberg com­pany in Stet­tin built the church’s organ in 1905, one of the only remain­ing Grünberg organs today. The tour con­tin­ues past Lake Pin­nower See to the church in Pin­now. It was con­se­crated in 1910. The north side of the church fea­tures a memo­r­ial com­mem­o­rat­ing the pre­vi­ous church build­ing. To get to the next stop, cycle to Lübbinchen, pass­ing the Krayner Teiche ponds and onward to the vil­lage church in Grano. Fur­ther north, past Lauschütz, is Sem­bten’s field­stone church, first ref­er­enced as a daugh­ter church of Grano in 1718, which was prob­a­bly also the year when build­ing work com­menced. One of the three bronze bells from 1533 can still be found in the bell tower. Con­tinue along a quiet coun­try road to the half-tim­bered church in Steins­dorf, dat­ing back to 1749. If you fol­low the cycle path past the vine­yards you’ll get back to the Oder-Neiße Cycle Path. Head south­wards to Bresinchen and the quarry lake to reach the last stop on the tour, the church in Groß Breesen, the birth­place of com­poser Johann Crüger (1598–1662).

Route:
Guben tou
rist infor­ma­tion cen­tre – Kerk­witz – Atter­wasch – Drewitz – Pin­now – Lübbinchen – Krayne – Grano – Lauschütz – Sem­bten – Steins­dorf – Bresinchen – Groß Breesen – Guben

Length of path:

approx­i­mately 72 kilo­me­tres

Con­di­tions of the path:

Cycle paths (sep­a­rate, asphalted cycle paths)

Cycle paths (asphalted, on roads that are mod­er­ately used)

Paved for­est paths

quiet coun­try roads

Cycling-by-num­bers
The full-day “great tour of vil­lage churches” can also be cycled using the new sign­posts along the junc­tions. You pass the fol­low­ing junc­tions by the start/fin­ish in Guben (junc­tion 74):
74, 34, 32, 31, 75, 27, 21, 24, 26, 25, 39, 38, 41, 38, 39, 45, 72, 67, 76, 6, 5, 8, 9, 11, 2, 14, 15, 16, 73, 28, 29

Sights:
Vil­lage churches: Kerk­witz, Atter­wasch, Pin­now, Grano, Sem­bten, Steins­dorf, Groß Breesen,

Lakes: Lake Deu­low­itzer See, Lake Klein­see, Lake Pin­nower See, Krayner Teiche ponds, Bresinchen quarry lake; Guben and Gubin town cen­tre; water mill – Atter­wasch; cas­tle – Grano

All churches men­tioned belong to the group of ‘open churches’. You can find out when the churches are open at the fol­low­ing web­site: www.​altekirchen.​de. Open­ing hours can­not always be guar­an­teed in the vil­lages. Vil­lage res­i­dents can often pro­vide the keys to the churches, so it’s worth ask­ing locally.
  • Reichen­bach Catholic Church, Rosen­weg 14, Guben
  • Bergkapelle Reichen­bach (cas­tle chapel), Cot­tbuser Strasse 54b, Guben
  • Gus­tav-Adolf-Kirche (church) in Kerk­witz: Irm­gard Han­schke, Haupt­strasse 2
  • Vil­lage church in Atter­wasch: Rec­tory
  • Vil­lage church in Drewitz, Dorf­s­trasse
  • Vil­lage church in Pin­now: Kun­sche fam­ily, Dorfmitte 6
  • Vil­lage church in Grano: Schulz fam­ily, Haupt­strasse 4
  • Vil­lage church in Sem­bten: Zacher fam­ily, Schul­strasse 3
  • Vil­lage church in Steins­dorf: open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from June to Sep­tem­ber
  • Church in Groß Breesen: Rec­tory, Melchert fam­ily

Restau­rants:
Bergschränke at the Bergho­tel Bresinchen

Karpfen­schränke by Lake Pin­nower See
Kirche Pin­now, Foto: Doreen Noack
Kirche Pin­now, Foto: MuT Guben e.V.
Kirche Pin­now, Foto: MuT Guben e.V.
Kirche Kerk­witz, Foto: MuT Guben e.V.
Kirche Kerk­witz, Foto: MuT Guben e.V.
Kirche Grano, Foto: TMB-Fotoarchiv/Scot­tyScout

Tour start

Frank­furter Straße 21
03172 Guben

Tour end

Frank­furter Straße 21
03172 Guben

Con­tact address

Frank­furter Straße 21
03172 Guben

Con­tact details

Con­tact: Mar­ket­ing und Touris­mus Guben e.V.
Tele­phone: 03561-3867
Fax: 03561-3910
Email: ti-guben@​t-​online.​de
Web­site: touristin­for­ma­tion-guben.de/de/start­seite.html
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