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The pulpit altar was built around 1805/1806. It is primarily made of wood, as is the pulpit framed by columns; above it is a straight entablature. Above it is a life-size image of Jesus Christ rising from the coffin, accompanied by two angels. The right-hand angel holds a chalice and a cross, while the left-hand angel stands on a skull and holds the Bible and a palm branch. The octagonal fifth was built during the same period and features flat, fluted coffered panels. The interior of the building features a plastered hollow vault, while the tower hall has a flat roof. On the north and south sides are two two-story galleries on round supports, accessible via stairs in the transepts. To the west is the organ gallery. It houses an instrument from the late 18th century, which the organ builder Carl Friedrich Kühnzack converted for the Schönwald church. The instrument was previously located in Halle (Saale), but was no longer needed there after the German and French Reformed congregations merged. The facade is in the Rococo style. On the south wall of the chancel are two 18th-century epitaphs. One tombstone features an inscription above a sarcophagus, while the second also features an inscription and putti. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nikolai_(Sch%C3%B6newalde)

The building was constructed primarily from bricks that were subsequently plastered. The chancel is straight and not recessed. On the east wall are two large round-arched windows, whose jambs are further emphasized by a wide plaster frame. The same applies to the keystone. This window type was also used in the nave. Between the two transepts, there are two round-arched windows on each side, as well as on the north and south sides of each transept. A sacristy is located between the northern transept and the chancel. On the south side of the southern transept is a rectangular doorway, above which is a transverse rectangular blind window followed by a bull's-eye window. The gable above is visually separated from the building by a cornice. There is another bull's-eye window in the center. The nave and transepts support a simple gable roof that is hipped towards the chancel. The church tower has a square floor plan and is significantly recessed compared to the nave. It can be entered from the west through a round-arched portal. Above this is a circular blind. On the north and south sides, there is a smaller round-arched window, each with a bull's-eye window above it. Approximately at the height of the nave's eaves, the tower tapers to an octagonal top. On the three accessible sides, there is a square opening; above this, in the four visible windows, there is a round-arched blind with a centrally mounted square arcade of sounds. Above the blind, there is a clock tower at each cardinal point. Above this, there is a slate-covered hood and an open lantern, topped with a turret ball, weather vane, and star. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nikolai_(Sch%C3%B6newalde)

According to the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM), the church had at least two predecessor buildings on the same site. The existence of the medieval building is documented by a city map created by Wilhelm Dilich in 1626. The building received a tower in 1598; the church itself was destroyed in a fire in 1669. Just one year later, a successor building was built, which received a wooden tower in 1715, which in turn was extensively renovated in 1768. During repairs to the organ, a fire broke out on June 7/8, 1803, which also destroyed this church. Another year later, the parish had the building constructed, which still stands in the 21st century. It was once surrounded by a church cemetery, which has since been abandoned. The consecration took place in 1806. In its monument database, the BLDAM praises the building's clear floor plan and "restrained interior design," calling it a "sophisticated example of Protestant church architecture of this period."[1] Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nikolai_(Sch%C3%B6newalde)

Landstraße 71, a market street, runs west-east through the town. In the elliptical town center, Landstraße 72 branches off to the south as Herzberger Straße, and Kirchstraße to the north. Another street with the same name runs parallel to this street a few meters further east. Between these two streets, and thus north of Landstraße 71, the church stands behind a residential development on an unfenced plot. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nikolai_(Sch%C3%B6newalde)