Around 1240, Slavic farmers settled on the small hill that still forms the center of Woltersdorf today. The first church was built in the village in 1555, five years after the first lock was built between Flakensee and Kalksee. In the 19th century, the villages around nearby Berlin continued to expand - many Berlin families also had weekend homes in Woltersdorf. This setting, together with the lakes, provided a suitable backdrop for films such as "The Tiger of Eschnapur" (1937).
The church of St. Michael, built in the neo-Gothic style, was consecrated in 1857. The church building, which was badly damaged in the Second World War, was gradually renovated in the decades that followed. The altar cross comes from the Benedictine monastery of Maria Laach. The grave of the painter Hugo Höppner, known as Fidus, who lived in Woltersdorf from 1907 until his death in 1948, is located in the cemetery.
