St. Michael's Church

The late Romanesque to early Gothic vaulted hall church includes a rectangular choir and a mighty west tower. The choir and nave were probably built at the beginning of the 13th century from fieldstones. The cavities between the boulders were filled with brick. Around the years 1270/80, the vaulting and expansion in brick took place. The choir gable has an indicated pointed-arch three-window group and above it two pointed-arch blind arches. The tower is also executed in brick; it has Romanesque biforia as sound openings and bears a high pyramid helmet, which is crooked. The nave, apart from the choir gable, is plastered; the current cement plaster from the 19th century is unfortunately harder than the brick material. The windows of the side walls were greatly enlarged during the Baroque period. Like many churches in the region, the building was stabilized in modern times by somewhat clumsy buttresses. On July 17, 1889, a lightning strike set the church on fire. The repair lasted several months, so that the church could only be put back into operation around November of that year. In the winter of 1961/1962, a fundamental renovation of the church was carried out. Among other things, the galleries were removed. Probably as part of the same renovation, the choir gable with its brick decor was also renewed, in the medieval forms recognizable in the photo after the fire, but with brick formats common around 1960. In May 1998, in connection with a stabilization of the side walls, a renewed renovation was carried out, and part of the material from 1961 was replaced again.