The Evangelical-Lutheran village church of Spremberg, today the main church of the two places of worship in the town of Neusalza-Spremberg, belongs, like the Trinity Church in Neusalza, to the Löbau-Zittau ephoria of the Evangelical-Lutheran state church in Saxony.
The nave of the old church, demolished in 1901, was probably built as early as the 14th century, between 1300 and 1400, because the thick quarry stone walls suggest such a high age. The masonry was filled with clay mortar and the irregular windows were probably only broken through later.”[2] Glass for the church windows was not available until later. The massive building made of fieldstone could certainly have been a kind of fortified church, into which the Spremberg villagers could retreat in case of danger. A relic from that time is an early-Gothic, pointed-arch gate made of sandstone, which frames the portal at the western entrance on the south side of the current church. The gate, decorated with simple but elegant lines and small rosettes, was reused, like the other two, in the new building in 1901/02. The historic stone church was a small rectangular building in plan, had no apse, but did have a sacristy and only a wooden tower called "Seigertum" with two bells, the location of which near or next to the church is not known to this day. [3] The town of Spremberg and its church must have had a certain regional importance back then - in Catholic times. According to a registry of the Diocese of Meissen from 1346, the Spremberg church was estimated at a bishop's tithe of 8 marks, while the neighboring parishes of Oppach were charged 4 marks, Taubenheim and Dürrhennersdorf each 2 marks, Ebersbach 1.5 marks and Schönbach only 1 mark . In addition to the Saxon Spremberg (Amt Stolpen), Fugau (today desert) and Königswalde in northern Bohemia as well as Friedersdorf in Lusatia belonged to the Spremberg parish (parochy), so that the communities were constitutionally in three different countries.[4]
During the Hussite wars (1419-1437), which spread from Bohemia to Upper Lusatia as a neighboring country, Spremberg was also afflicted, probably in connection with the Hussite attacks on Bautzen in 1429 and 1431, and its church, which was important at the time, was burned down to the foundations. Apparently, the reason for this was provided by the then secular and spiritual village authorities, represented by the Spremberg landlord Sigmund von Raussendorf (Rawsendorff) and his brother, the pastor Friedrich von Raussendorf. He is the first recorded pastor of the Spremberg parish. As Catholics loyal to the emperor and the pope, they appeared as implacable opponents of the Hussite popular movement and, for their own benefit, made a pact with the North Bohemian robber baron Mixi Panzer (Mikusch) von Smoyn, who plundered in the area between Bautzen and Löbau and was feuding with both six cities lay.[5] However, the burnt-out church in the village must have been rebuilt in 1432. "An inscription 'Anno 1432', which according to credible testimony was placed in a window arch of the old church demolished in 1901, suggests that the church destroyed by the Hussites was restored that year.
With Luther posting his theses in Wittenberg in 1517 and the subsequent Reformation in Germany, a fundamental change in church and society took place. The Protestant Lutheran doctrine spread rapidly. With the transition of Spremberg to the Protestant Electorate of Saxony in 1559, the Reformation was introduced in the parish of Spremberg by the manorial representative Hennigke von Raussendorf on May 1 of the same year. With David Styrius, a native of Silesia, who studied in Leipzig and was ordained in Wittenberg, the Spremberg parish received its first evangelical pastor, who he headed from 1555 to 1559