The Priesitz Church was probably built in the Romanesque style in the 13th century.
The different building materials testify to the frugality and modesty of the builders of the time. Various bricks, field stones and bog iron ore (iron-bearing rock found in the area and when digging wells) were used. Small narrow arched windows from the time it was built can still be seen on the outside of the east gable. It was only later that they were walled up and replaced by larger ones. Instead of a bell tower, the half-timbered extension on the western gable was built in the 17th century.
The elongated Priesitzer See, on the banks of which the church was built, is part of the navigable original main stream of the Elbe. As a result of natural changes and human intervention, the Elbe now flows about 1000 meters further east past Priesitz.
During the Thirty Years' War, the village built around the church was almost completely destroyed. After that, the residents settled higher up, safer from the flooding of the Elbe. The church and cemetery alone remained at the old site. A tombstone on the meadow tells of the latter.
From time immemorial, the church served not only as a place of worship for the priests, but also for boatmen and fishermen who were out and about on the Elbe.
The eye-catcher inside the simple church is the Gothic winged altar. It was probably Elbe boatmen from Bohemia who brought the work of art, created around 1500, to Priesitz.
In the middle section stands Mary as Queen of Heaven on a crescent moon. She carries the baby Jesus in her arms. She is surrounded by saints, the intercessors of believers before Christ.