Next to the church on the original village green is a war memorial to the village's fallen sons in the First World War.

The inscription on the memorial reads:

DIESER STEIN SEI ZEUGE
VON EURER VÄTER NOT
19 VON DEN UNSRIGEN
SANKEN IN DEN TOD

[This stone is a witness
of your father's distress
19 of our own
Fallen in death]

Walter Langenick 3.10.1914.
Richard Thomas 7.11.
Hermann Browatzki 15.3.1915.
Bernhard Braune 18.6.
Wilhelm Schmidt 30.6.
Karl Kempfer 8.8.
Otto Tempelhof 8.9.
Walter Falkenberg 4.7.1916.
Max Fromke 17.8.
Paul Langenick 3.6.1917.
Paul Siebeke 2.9.
Adolf Brusch 20.3.1918.
Rudolf Wiese 1.8.
Karl Brusch 24.9.
Willi Wiese 8.10.
Alfred Müller 12.10.

Vermisst: [missing in action]
Wilhelm Daebel 3.2.1915.
Ernst Gericke 28.6.1918.

In der Heimat gafallen: [fallen at home]
Franz Rütz 21.3.1920.

"SIE GABEN IHR ALLES,
IHR LEBEN, IHR BLUT.
SIE GABEN ES HIN
MIT HEILIGEM MUT
FÜR UNS!"

[They gave their all,
Their life, their blood.
They sacrificed it
With saintly courage
For us.]

The inscription was penned by Ernst Lau in 1922.