Jesus Church (Berlin-Kaulsdorf)

Jesus Church
Seen from south – with the spire reconstructed in 1999 after war destruction in 1945
Basic information
Location	Kaulsdorf, a locality of Berlin
Geographic coordinates	52°30′30″N 13°34′51″E / 52.508218°N 13.580883°E / 52.508218; 13.580883Coordinates: 52°30′30″N 13°34′51″E / 52.508218°N 13.580883°E / 52.508218; 13.580883
Affiliation	United Protestant, originally Roman Catholic, from 1539 on Lutheran, since the 19th century Evangelical Protestant.
District	Sprengel Berlin (region), Kirchenkreis Lichtenberg-Oberspree (deanery)
Province	Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
Country	Germany
Year consecrated	unknown
Website	Congregation Kaulsdorf (German)
Architectural description
Architectural style	Romanesque, later extensions and refurbishes
Completed	14th and 15th centuries
Materials	small boulders, covered with plaster, and brick

Jesus Church (Kaulsdorf) (German: Jesuskirche, colloquially also Dorfkirche, village church) is the church of the Evangelical Berlin-Kaulsdorf Congregation, a member of today's Protestant umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (under this name since 2004). The church building is located in Berlin, borough Marzahn-Hellersdorf, in the locality of Kaulsdorf. The church was named after Jesus of Nazareth. The congregation's parish comprises the area of the historical village of Kaulsdorf, which had been incorporated into Berlin by the Prussian Greater Berlin Act in 1920.

Kaulsdorf (then Caulstorp in the Electorate of Brandenburg) used to be a village of soccage farmers, with their dues to be delivered first to the Kalands Brethren confraternity in Bernau bei Berlin, as documented in a deed of donatio by Margrave Louis I of Brandenburg as of 1347, representing the oldest surviving record of Kaulsdorf. The church is located in the midst of the village green, enclosed in a church yard surrounded by a wall of boulders. The church dates back to the 14th century, its apse of Romanesque style may be preserved from a predecessing building (13th century). The oriented nave is built from small boulders, clad with plaster. In 1412 St. Peter's Church (Berlin-Cölln) acquired the manorial seigniority over parts of Kaulsdorf. Therefore, the Provost of St. Peter's held the ius patronatus over church and parish in Kaulsdorf. Prince-Elector Joachim II Hector wanted to increase the number of canons at Berlin's Collegiate Church of Our Lady, the Holy Cross, the Ss. Peter, Paul, Erasmus and Nicholas. So he redeployed some ecclesiastical estates and thus in 1536 Kaulsdorf became a manorial estate held by the canon-law College of that Collegiate Church, in order to provide the revenues for its three additional prebendaries. Also the ius patronatus was transferred to the collegiate church.