The former pilgrimage church of St. Ewald in Bodstedt is a simple brick building with a polygonal east end and another bay added to the west in 1786. On the north side there is a small chapel annex. This chapel was the destination of pilgrimages to St. Ewald in the 15th century. From the medieval furnishings, besides the nine-cornered baptismal fountain made of granite, the filigree mural painting on the north side has been preserved. A panel painting depicting the baptism of Jesus Christ dates from the middle of the 16th century.
In Bodstedt, a church is attested for the first time in 1388. However, the present building was probably built around 1460 as a pilgrimage chapel for St. Ewald (which is the Low German form of Theobald of Thann in Alsace). The western yoke with the round-arched window was added in 1785. It tells of the miraculous rescue from distress at sea, when on January 26, 1457, Claus Schrieber, a fisherman from Barth, was fishing for herring with his crew of 23 and ran into a life-threatening storm. They called on God and St. Theobald for help, and immediately the storm stopped. Therefore, pilgrimages to Bodstedt are attested in the period between 1474 and 1508. Of the medieval furnishings, only the nine-cornered baptismal fountain made of granite and the filigree wall painting on the north side, which was uncovered in 1934, have survived. Most of the inventory is Baroque, as is the beamed ceiling decorated with acanthus paintings. From the late 17th century are the pulpit decorated with biblical scenes and images of evangelists, the pulpit angel, and a panel painting of the baptism of Jesus. The altarpiece (1741) shows a picture of the Last Supper and a group of figures at the top depicting the Transfiguration: Jesus between Moses and Elijah in front of three of his disciples. In 1887 F. A. Mehmel (Stralsund) built the two-manual organ. The figurative wall paintings were created by the architect of the Borner Fischerkirche, Bernhard Hopp, in 1934 during the last interior restoration. Most of the nave models below the pulpit date from the 1990s.
