The Elsnigk Village Church is the Protestant church of Elsnigk in the Osternienburger Land municipality in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district of Saxony-Anhalt. The sacred building is a listed building and is registered as a historic monument under registration number 094 70760.[1] The church belongs to the Osternienburg parish in the Köthen church district of the Evangelical Church of Anhalt.[2]
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In Elsnigk, first documented in 1349, a church was first mentioned in 1370. In the 19th century, a new building became necessary, which was completed between 1877 and 1879. The consecration of this church, which still exists today, took place on July 20, 1879.[3]
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The church was built as a neo-Romanesque hall building with a west tower and eastern apse. However, the sacred building also features elements from other eras, which is particularly evident in the two stepped gables, which in this form were rather atypical for the Romanesque period. The same can be said – in the area of village church construction – of the dimensions of the windows, which were considerably smaller in the Romanesque period. Numerous details characterize the exterior of the church, including pinnacles at the corners of the nave, bull's-eye windows, cornices, clocks and friezes on the tower, columns in the tower's sound holes, and even stepped window openings.

During the First World War, the copper covering of the brick spire was donated in 1916 as part of the German People's Metal Donation. Exactly 100 years later, protective measures were taken.[4] These repair measures in 2017 and 2018 included the roofs of the tower, nave, and apse, as well as the protection of the eastern gable.[5]

The church houses the painting cycle "Lives in Love" by the Köthen artist Steffen Rogge.[6]
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