Sankt Briccius

Sankt Briccius stands in Magdeburg’s Cracau district as an evangelical church with a Romanesque west tower and Gothic nave. The tower began as a twelfth-century defensive structure, while Dutch settlers built the original church for Saint Briccius.

The Thirty Years’ War destroyed that building, and the present structure took shape in the mid-seventeenth century. Plötzky rubble stone forms the tower, sandstone marks its edges, and high entry hatches recall its defensive past. Double-arched sound windows open the bell storey, while four round-arched windows light each side of the simple nave.

Inside, white walls, deep window niches, and a flat wooden ceiling frame a west gallery. A pulpit altar with Corinthian columns and a Baroque hexagonal baptismal font with winged angel heads add crafted detail. Around the grounds, a rubble-stone wall incorporates fifteen stone crosses from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, alongside a war memorial from 1922. A brass baptismal bowl inscribed “The Church of Cracau 1794” returned after nearly a century away.