Krevese Monastery was founded as a Benedictine monastery in 1170 by Count Albrecht von Osterburg. It belonged to the Diocese of Verden. After the introduction of the Reformation in 1541, the monastery was converted into a Protestant women's monastery. The buildings were exchanged for the von Bismarck family in 1563. In 1602 the last dominatrix died and the women's monastery was dissolved. The monastery buildings were demolished in 1856.

The archaic-rustic looking church was built from field stone and brick masonry as a Romanesque basilica with an apse, but without a transept, until around 1200.

The central nave received a Gothic cross vault in the second half of the 14th century. The south aisle was probably rebuilt in 1527 to the height of the central nave and also vaulted with cross vaults. The north aisle kept half the height of the nave and the original vaulting with barrel vaults and stitch caps, but was provided with rectangular windows in 1908. The monastery church shows alternating columns and pillars on the north wall of the central nave (support change). The arched windows of the central nave are grouped into groups of two. On the south wall, the arcade arches were widened when the aisle was raised and vaulted; therefore only the pillars remained of the supports there. The original west building can only be recognized in traces of demolition and a walled-up double portal above a square central pillar. The church is accessed today through the portal in the north aisle, dated 1746. The current tower was erected as a half-timbered tower in 1598 above the western central nave yoke and in 1707 was given a baroque dome and lantern.

The church was restored between 1953 and 1958 and after 1993.

The church has a baroque interior. These include a pulpit altar and a baptismal angel from the years 1743/46 as well as the stalls and a patron s box (before 1744). A bronze bell was cast by Johann George Ziegner in Salzwedel in 1745.

The baroque organ with 13 registers on a manual and pedal is particularly valuable. It was built in 1721 by the organ builder Anton Heinrich Gansen from Salzwedel and has largely retained its original sound. The work was restored in 1954 and 1962.

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