Schönhausen - St. Marien und Willebrord

The church is a large Romanesque brick building strongly influenced by the architecture of the near church of the Jerichow monastery. It was consecrated in a document in 1212. The church is a basilica with six bays without a transept, with a square choir and a semicircular apse, as well as an unusually powerful transverse rectangular westwork. The roof truss was dendrochronologically dated to 1484/85.

An epitaph of the von Bismarck family, they had a castle nearby. Otto von Bismarck was born in Schönhausen in 1815 and was baptized in this church. From 1862 to 1890 - with a brief interruption - he was Prime Minister of Prussia, and from 1867 to 1871 he was also Chancellor of the North German Confederation. From 1871 to 1890 he was the first Reich Chancellor of the German Reich, whose founding he was instrumental in driving forward.