History
The church was first mentioned in 1288, when it was dedicated to St Bartholomew. The present building dates from the first half of the 14th century and stands on the remains of an earlier stone structure. In the 18th century, from 1749 onwards, a chapel was added on the north side and an oak tower on the west, with an original eaves board of patterned cut planks. At the same time the walls were raised by three feet and a gallery was added on the north side.
Building and furnishings
It is a single-nave, east-facing masonry building. A timber tower with an octagonal cupola adjoins it to the west, and to the north an extension serves as a chapel.
The highlight of the interior is the ceiling painted in 1745 by the painter Rosenberg of Quedlinburg: choirs of angels in tempera float among the clouds. Above the entrance is a gallery with paintings from 1751–1754, carrying an eight-stop organ built by the Grüneberg firm in 1910. The organ gallery also bears oil paintings and the donors' coats of arms. The Gothic Revival altar holds a painting of Our Lady of Częstochowa, beside it stands a pulpit with a sounding board – the pulpit itself dates from 1781. Other furnishings include a plated baptismal bowl from 1872, a 19th-century six-armed brass chandelier with flower-shaped ends, a neo-Baroque lantern with an openwork casing, and Stations of the Cross.
Gallery
