The church in Kleinbautzen was built between 1675 and 1681 using parts from a previous building; a date on the north gallery points to the year 1680. The lodge built to the north with its late Renaissance gable was probably designed by Martin Pötzsch. In 1887 the tower was provided with an entrance door on the south wall. During a renovation in 1907, a new window was broken into the north wall of the church. In 1934 and 1979 the interior of the church was restored. In 1995 the exterior masonry and plaster were renewed. The church was last renovated in 2004. The church is a massive plastered building with a straight east end. The nave has a two-storey and a single-storey pointed arch window with contrasting colored reveals on the long sides. A porch with a hipped roof is built under the smaller window on the south wall. Next to it is a two-storey box extension with a pent roof. The north box is structured with corrugated corners and a separating cornice and has an elaborately designed round gable. The west tower of the church has a square floor plan and an octagonal renaissance-style bell storey with sound openings on all sides and a tent roof. On the western front, under the window niches, there is the Nostitz family coat of arms. The magnificently designed north box of the Kleinbautzener Kirche (2012) The interior is almost in its original condition and has a flat plastered ceiling. The parapets of the magnificently designed northern box are decorated with plastic festoons with palm-wreathed writing panels and underneath with putti heads. There are twisted columns with vine leaves between the box windows. Three writing cartouches are attached above the plastic cornice. The parapet of the south box, dated 1681 by an inscription, is divided by profiled pillars, in between are the parapet fields with biblical scenes - the return of the prodigal son, the parable of the workers in the vineyard, the good Samaritan, the Canaanite woman and the im Peter sinking into the sea - painted. In the western part of the church there is a single-storey, white-framed wooden gallery. Source: Wikipedia
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