Schmölln Village Church

Situated on a hill above the village, the church is a large fieldstone hall church with a receding rectangular choir, northern sacristies and a nave-wide western tower from the second half of the 13th century. The sacristy was apparently planned from the beginning, as evidenced by the surrounding base. The square half-timbered top of the tower with a closed octagonal lantern and pointed spire from the mid-18th century accentuates the church. Renovation took place in 1998/99. The building stands on a sloping base, the west front has no opening. The main portal from the south is framed with stepped ogival arcades surrounded by brick and field skids, above which there is a triple brick screen on the toothed frieze. From the south, in the presbytery and from the north, there are two more portals, framed with brick skids. The door to the tower's staircase on the south side is walled up. The windows were enlarged in brick in the 19th century. From the east, there is a stepped three-window group of tall ogival windows, shortened in the 19th century. In the gable, there is a round window framed with stepped brick screens, and a toothed frieze above it. Inside, a pointed triumphal arch divides the room. The western gallery and the beamed ceiling are decorated with 17th-century ornamental paintings, renovated in 1913;

Outstandingly beautiful village church in Schmölln.