Cunewalde church, Protestant church in Cunewalde, Germany.

The Cunewalde church is a plastered rubble-stone hall with a rectangular plan, high flat-arched windows and a 62-metre west tower topped by a hood with lantern. Inside, a flat wooden ceiling painted cream, blue and gold covers a gallery hall with three tiers of white galleries on slender columns, rows of light wooden pews and a stone-tiled aisle leading to the altar.

A first church in Cunewalde is documented in 1222, when Bishop Bruno II of Meissen transferred the village to the Bautzen cathedral chapter. The medieval building was dilapidated by 1588 and lightning struck its tower on 16 July 1633. The foundation stone of the present church was laid on 5 January 1780; financial shortfalls during the seven-year construction were bridged by lotteries, and the interior was completed for consecration on the third Sunday of Advent 1793.

The church's name comes from the village, whose 18th- and 19th-century Umgebinde houses surround it. Since Christmas Eve 1817, a Lichterzug procession has been held here, begun when the three Bohemian crystal chandeliers were first lit with candles. Six apostle figures stand on the gallery pillars, and under the organ gallery are late-Gothic figures of St Nicholas and St Mary from an altar of around 1450, repainted in 1909.

The church stands in the valley village of Cunewalde, south of the Czorneboh and north of the Bieleboh, among 18th- and 19th-century Umgebinde houses. Plain entrance portals open in the tower and the south wall of the nave; inside, a stone-tiled aisle runs between the pew rows. The galleries rise in three tiers, and the south gallery's first upper floor holds a 19th-century tiled stove.

The organ, finished in 1840 by Gottfried Müller and Christian Friedrich Reiß of Neugersdorf, has three manuals, a pedal, 36 sounding stops and 2,229 pipes with mechanical action. Look up at the west gallery where it stands.