Source Wikipedia: The church consecrated to St. Pancratius, one of the ice saints and the 14 helpers, was mentioned in a document on July 5, 1121, in which Archbishop Rüdiger of Magdeburg confirmed the gifts of his predecessor to the Neuwerk monastery. Motzlich and his church were to remain in the possession of the monastery until 1520. The first Protestant pastor after the conversion of the church to the Protestant faith was Michael Schaffer (term of office 1558-1562).
In 1712 and 1713, the originally Romanesque church was fundamentally rebuilt under the leadership of the Royal Prussian secret councilor Christian Friedrich von Braun. Among other things, the church received a three-sided east end, high arched windows and the tower a hipped roof.
Another elaborate renovation in the neo-Romanesque style took place between 1896 and 1897 under the direction of the parish church council and architect Karl Hernsdorf from Halle. In addition to the tower, only the two side walls of the church remained. Instead of the three-sided choir, a chancel square room with a semicircular apse was added, and the nave was extended. The completed ringing made of bronze bells was replaced by three steel bells in the 1920s. The interior of the church was also completely redesigned.