Budberga Lutheran Church

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Paul in Budberga was built between 1865 and 1866. It is a brick and fieldstone building with arrow-shaped window openings, decorative bands, cornices, and buttresses. The church is the only newly built historicist brick-style church in the Bauska region.
The church is the only newly built historicist brick-style church in the Bauska region. Moreover, the church was built in the 1860s, which was the beginning of the spread of this architectural style in Latvia. Both the church itself and its matching interior furnishings are considered an interesting example of the Neo-Gothic "brick style" in the Zemgale countryside. The church building is included in the list of state-protected cultural monuments as an architectural monument of local significance, and its furnishings as an art monument of local significance.
The congregation has preserved its church throughout the post-war years and has always taken good care of the artistic treasures in the church. In the 1990s, with the support of the Bauska municipality, the roof and windows of the church congregation's premises were renovated.
In 2013, the organ was successfully restored. In 2021 and 2022, the spire, which was destroyed during World War II, and the entrance staircase were restored with funding from the LAD program ELFLA and LEEDER.
With the support of the Bauska Municipality, in 2024 the parish completed the paving of the footpath near the church, which was started in 2023 as part of the project "Residents Create Their Environment."