Churches in Leipzig

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The Nikolai and Thomaskirche are the two historic churches in Leipzig city center.

The churches in Leipzig developed along with the expansion of the city. In today's Leipzig city ​​area there are more than 90 church buildings, 65 of which belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony , the church with the largest number of members in Leipzig.

The two largest and most important church buildings of the Middle Ages were located within the former city wall. These two churches, which still dominate the city center today, the Nikolai and Thomaskirche, were also the only parish churches in the city from 1539 to 1876.

When Reudnitz and Anger-Crottendorf were first incorporated into Leipzig in 1889 , the rural villages with the old village churches, which were mostly located in the middle of the old location, were added. Many of these churches have survived to this day. Some village churches that had become too small were replaced by larger new buildings in the second half of the 19th century after the former villages had developed into populous industrial suburbs. Most churches, however, were founded as new foundations.

The St. Andrew's Chapel from the 11th century in Knautnaundorf , which was incorporated in 1999, is the oldest preserved church room on Saxon soil.

Note: The Evangelical Lutheran churches do not have a denomination in the list.

Nikolaikirche

Nikolaikirche

The Nikolaikirche is one of the two main churches in the city and the largest church in Leipzig. It has a significant classical interior. The house of God was the starting point for the peaceful revolution in autumn 1989. Opposite the church is the preacher's house at Nikolaikirchhof 3–4. It was built as a neo-renaissance building in 1886/87 instead of part of the old Nikolaischule . The church has a 75 meter high tower, on the upper floor of which there used to be a tower house . Before the Reformation, the Nikolaikirche had one main and 18 side altars.

  • Organs:
    • 1859–1862: Friedrich Ladegast (IV / 84)
    • 1902–1903: Conversion by Wilhelm Sauer , Frankfurt / Oder (IV / 93)
    • 2002–2003: Hermann Eule , Bautzen. New building based on the Ladegast organ with integration of the historical substance (V / 103, largest church organ in Saxony); When the organ was rebuilt, the console that was no longer in existence was redesigned by Porsche designers

Thomas Church

Thomas Church

The Thomaskirche is one of the two main churches in the city. It was built as a new building in late Gothic style in place of the older collegiate church of the Augustinian Canons . In 1884–1889 a renovation in the neo-Gothic style and the construction of the Mendelssohn portal on the western front took place. All of the furnishings from the Baroque era were removed. The Thomaskirche has one of the steepest gable roofs in Germany with an angle of inclination of 63 °. The tower height is 68 meters. Before the Reformation, the St. Thomas Church had one main and 17 side altars.

The Thomaskirche was the place of activity of Johann Sebastian Bach and the Thomanerchor , and since 1950 it has also been Bach's final resting place.

The superintendent's office (Thomaskirchhof 18), built in 1904 instead of the old Thomas School , borders the church . It is a building completely clad in limestone with three striking stepped gables and Art Nouveau furnishings inside.

  • Organs: Even in the previous building, “organ singing” is documented for the first time in 1384, this is one of the earliest evidence in Europe of organ use in church services.
    • 1885–1889: Wilhelm Sauer , Frankfurt / Oder, romantic organ (III / 63) with a prospectus by Constantin Lipsius , 1908 reconstruction by Sauer (III / 86), 1993 and 2005 restoration and return to the original state of 1908 by Christian Scheffler, Sieversdorf
    • 1966–1967: Schuke , Potsdam, additional organ on the north gallery (III / 47) especially for older organ music, expanded in 1999 and used for the new construction of the Schuke organ (IV / 69, completed in 2005) of St. Mary's Cathedral in Fürstenwalde.
    • 1999–2000: Bach organ by Gerald Woehl , Marburg (IV / 61) as a replacement for the Schuke organ, this largest baroque organ in Central Germany can be converted from a chorus to a concert pitch

New Roman Catholic Provost Church of St. Trinity

New provost church of St. Trinity

The new building of the provost church of St. Trinitatis with parish center took place on a triangular plot of land. The building was made of Rochlitz porphyry , the rectory offers a passage for passers-by.

The tower height is approx. 50 meters.

Evangelical Reformed Church

reformed Church

The church forms a unit with the adjoining preacher's house built at the same time; on December 4, 1943, it was damaged during the heavy air raids, reconstruction until 1969.

The tower height is 67 meters.

Peterskirche

Peterskirche

The neo-Gothic building in the form of the cathedral Gothic is the most important historical religious building in Leipzig. In front of the main entrance there is a memorial for the fallen by Max Alfred Brumme in 1937 . The main tower of the church is the highest church tower in Leipzig with a height of 88.5 meters. The two west towers are each 42.6 meters high. On December 4, 1943, the church was badly damaged in an air raid. In 1948/49 the vaults, roof trusses and gable walls were secured, after which they were restored. In 1993 an ongoing comprehensive renovation began.

  • Organs:
    • 1885, Wilhelm Sauer , Frankfurt / Oder (III / 60), the organ - which today has an inestimable monument value - was expanded in 1958 by organ builders who can no longer be identified after war-related damage, so that only the 12-meter-wide neo-Gothic prospect remains The rest is lost, after initial reconstruction plans for the Sauer organ, the decision was made to build an organ for French symphonic organ music of the 19th and 20th centuries based on the model of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, for which purpose Leipzig organists founded an organ support group in 1995.
    • The former school organ of the St. Pauli University Church (II / 8), which was built around 1900 by Johannes Jahn , Dresden, and later expanded by Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen , was able to work on November 19 after extensive restoration by Gerd-Christian Bochmann, Kohren-Sahlis 1995 to be given to the Peterskirche as a permanent loan from the University of Leipzig.
    • 2005 Positive (I / 4) by Gerd-Christian Bochmann in the baptistery

Community center of the Evangelical Free Church Congregation (Baptists)

Baptist Community Center
  • Location: Bernhard-Göring-Straße 18-20
  • Construction period: 2009–2010
  • Architects: Bettina Noesser, Reinulf Padberg, Cologne

After the previous buildings used by the community (the old Peace Chapel) were demolished, a modern, simple building was created with an elongated structure above the glazed basement, which is open to the garden. The first service in the new building took place on February 28, 2010.

Methodist Church of the Cross

Kreuzkirche
  • Location: Paul-Gruner-Straße 26 (formerly Sidonienstraße)
  • Construction time: 1921
  • Architects: Richard Wagner, Karl Petermann (reconstruction 1949/50)

The church interior is in the style of Leipzig classicism of the early 19th century. In 1949–1950 the church, which was burned out in World War II, was rebuilt, but without the original side galleries. In 1923, the municipality acquired the northwestern property with a villa built in 1877 for the manufacturer Julius Meißner (after the war destruction and the demolition of the ruins, only the basement remained). The stable and coach house with pillar loggia on the upper floor, which was used as a parish hall, has been preserved.

  • Organs:
    • 1940, Weigele, destroyed
    • 1950 New organ from Jehmlich , Dresden

Regional church community

Regional church community

Location: Paul-Gruner-Straße 44 (formerly Sidonienstraße)

  • Construction period: 1907–1908, 1946–1950 (reconstruction), 1996–1997 (conversion to a hotel)
  • Architect: Paul Lange

The elongated hall building was instead of a villa from 1860 for the community association in the Kingdom of Saxony e. V. (Association of Protestant men for a Christian lifestyle) built. The first and second floors housed the preacher's hall, which originally had an apse with a podium and two pulpits on the northern long side and two galleries on the narrow sides. The hall building burned down after an air raid on December 4, 1943, but could be used again in 1945. As the maintenance of the building was becoming too expensive, it was decided in 1996 to make the house available to the Hotel Michaelis (named after the former chairman of the Gnadau community association Walter Michaelis ). The regional church community only uses rooms in the basement. She rents conference rooms in the hotel for community hours and larger events.

Parish hall of the Andreas Community

Parish hall of the Andreas Community
  • Location: Scharnhorststrasse 29–31
  • Period of construction: 1935–1936
  • Architects: Georg Stauch, Lieselotte Hering (room renovation 1949)

The two-storey plastered building with a slightly bent hipped roof and arched entrance was built as a community center. The front four-storey house from 1936/37 was destroyed in the Second World War. To the right of the parish hall is the hall with high windows, which was converted into a sacred space in 1949. Since the destruction of St. Andrew's Church, it has been used for the church services of the St. Andrew's community, which for reasons of space now take place in the "Pavilion of Hope", the former exhibition hall 14 built in 1985 by VEB Carl Zeiss Jena on the Old Fair , which today belongs to the Ecumenical Center. The building is currently used by the Anglican congregation in Leipzig, the Leipzig English Church. There is a free-standing bell tower next to the parish hall. Organ: 1947, Jehmlich , Dresden, using the pipework recovered from the destroyed St. Andrew's Church (II / 18)

Bethlehem Church

Bethlehem Church
  • Location: Kurt-Eisner-Strasse 22
  • Construction period: 1926–1927, 1953 (bell tower)
  • Architects: Theodor and Fritz Kösser

Theodor Kösser designed a community center with an attached church for the Bethlehem community, which was founded in December 1911 (hence the name) by dividing the Andreas community. The start of construction was delayed and came to a complete standstill in the First World War; only a community center with an adjoining hall without the planned church was inaugurated as part of the overall complex in 1927. There is a free-standing bell tower next to the building.

  • Organ: 1952, Hermann Lahmann, Leipzig (II / 9), 1999 by Hermann Eule , Bautzen, completely overhauled

Luther Church

Luther Church
  • Location: Ferdinand-Lassalle-Straße (formerly Bismarckstraße), corner of Paul-Gerhardt-Weg
  • Period of construction: 1884–1887
  • Architect: Julius Zeißig

The neo-Gothic style church was originally intended to be built on the site of the Anglo-American church. After an agreement between the Anglo-American Church Building Committee and the Leipzig Church Building Association, the building site was swapped. The grave monument for Wilhelm Seyfferth is on the outer choir wall . The tower height is 65 meters. After the merger of the Luther parish with the Thomas Matthäi parish, the Luther church is to receive new tasks within the framework of the Forum Thomanum music campus .

  • Organ: 1886, Richard Kreutzbach , Borna (II / 28), the organ was badly damaged by fire in 1888, but rebuilt in its old form , rearranged in 1936 by the company Eule , Bautzen

Michaeliskirche

Michaeliskirche
  • Location: Nordplatz
  • Period of construction: 1901–1904
  • Architects: Heinrich Rust, Alfred Müller

The church building has a cross-shaped floor plan in neo-renaissance forms with elements of historicism and art nouveau. It has a 70 meter high tower.

  • Organ: 1904, Sauer company , Frankfurt / Oder (III / 45, preserved in original condition), 1951 general repair by Reinhard Schmeisser , Rochlitz, restored 1996–1999

Church of the Evangelical Free Church Congregation (Brethren Congregation)

Church of the Brethren
  • Location: Jacobstrasse 17-19
  • Period of construction: 1952–1954

After the Second World War, the community began to rebuild a ruin. Because of the difficult material situation, as much of the old building fabric as possible was reused.

Russian Orthodox Memorial Church of St. Alexi

St. Alexi Memorial Church

The tent roof church based on the model of the Resurrection Church in Moscow- Kolomenskoje was built as a plastered brick building with a reinforced concrete skeleton spire on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig in memory of the 22,000 Russian soldiers who died in the battle. The tower height is 55 meters.

Catholic Apostolic Church in Marienstadt

Catholic Apostolic Church
  • Location: Dohnanyistraße 22 (formerly Friedrich-List-Straße)
  • Construction time: 1874
  • Architects: H. Br. Oehlschlegel, Ernst August Roßteuscher

The church consists of a simple hall in the arched style. In 1877 the extension was increased to build a sexton's apartment. During an air raid on March 7, 1944, the facade was damaged, so that the bell tower had to be removed. 1981–1985 the church was restored.

Community center of the Evangelical Church ELIM in the Federation of Free Church Pentecostal Congregations

Community center of the Evangelical Congregation ELIM
  • Location: Hans-Poeche-Straße 11 (formerly Mittelstraße)

In 1935 the community acquired the property around the former Hotel Bardenhaus as a community hall. After the Second World War, the partially destroyed church was rebuilt.

Church of the Christian Community

Church of the Christian Community
  • Location: Schenkendorfstrasse 3
  • Construction period: 1981–1982, 1882–1883 ​​(parish hall)
  • Architects: Wolfgang Friebe, Peter Auspurg, design of the steel frame building by Udo Gurgel , master bricklayer Franz Schirmer (parish hall)

As a result of the delimitation by two neighboring tenement houses and the consideration of trees to be preserved, an octagonal floor plan was chosen for the pavilion-like church building with its broken facade and hat-shaped roof surfaces. The interior allows various uses due to the variability of the rooms. The liturgical furnishings are made of slate. The villa, set back from the street and formerly built for Richard Schnabel, has a veranda and a tower extension with a steep tent roof and serves as a parish and community center.

  • Organ: Positive from Hermann Eule , Bautzen (I / 5), which has been owned by the municipality since 1962

Catholic Apostolic Church

Catholic Apostolic Church
  • Location: Körnerstrasse 58
  • Period of construction: 1896–1897
  • Architect: Julius Zeißig

After an air raid on March 25, 1945, only the surrounding walls, the basement and the residential building on the left remained of the neo-Gothic brick building with red facing bricks. The original solid roof was only put back in 1988/89.

  • Organs: 1897, Gottfried Hildebrand, Leipzig (II / 15), destroyed in 1945, since 1983 positive from Böhm, Gotha (I / 5) in the community room

Hohen Thekla Church

Hohen Thekla Church
  • Location: Neutzscher Strasse
  • Construction time: Romanesque
  • Architects: Julius Zeißig (restoration 1898), Fritz Ziel (reconstruction 1959–1962)

The rectangular boulder building with a massive west tower stands on the Kirchberg above the villages of Cleuden, Neutzsch and Plösen, which were united in 1889. Because of their elevated locations, the churches of Hohen Thekla, Panitzsch and Beucha are popularly known as the "Three High Priests". The church burned down in the Thirty Years' War in 1637 and was rebuilt around 1650. On the night of January 29th to 30th, 1959, the church and all its furnishings including bells were destroyed by arson. After reconstruction, it was re-inaugurated on October 7, 1962.

  • Organs:
    • 1776, first organ as a gift from a Zittau merchant
    • 1851, Albert Hermann Wolfram, Leipzig (II / 13), 1930 Installation of prospect pipes made of zinc, destroyed in 1959
    • 1966, Eule company , Bautzen (II / 15)

Stephanuskirche

Stephanuskirche
  • Location: Kieler Straße, Mockau
  • It was built: 13th century
  • Architect: Julius Zeißig (conversion 1896/97)

The single-nave building has a rectangular west tower. In 1787 the nave and choir were extensively rebuilt, and further modifications were made in 1841, 1896/97 and 1919–1924. In 1926 the church was re-plastered and given the name Stephanuskirche. 1990–1993 a new extension with community rooms was built in place of the sacristy.

  • Organ:
    • 1787 Christian Friedrich Göthel , Borstendorf delivered a used organ (I / 14)
    • 1897 new building by Gottfried Hildebrand, Leipzig (II / 13), cleaned in 1952 by Jehmlich , rearranged in 1956 by Hermann Lahmann, Leipzig, general overhaul in 1993 by Gerd-Christian Bochmann, Kohren-Sahlis

Christ Church

Christ Church
  • Location: Gräfestraße 18 (Eutritzsch)
  • Construction time: Romanesque

The small vaulted hall church has a three-sided east end and an inserted choir arch. Approx. between 1489 and 1503 a reconstruction took place. After the Reformation the church was redesigned again. Restorations took place in 1956–1959 (inside) and 1970 (outside). The winged altar (around 1480) comes from the Machern church .

  • Organs:
    • 1736, Zacharias Hildebrandt (I / 10), renewed in 1847 by Johann Gottlob Mende , Leipzig, and redesigned after a lightning strike in 1888 by Gottfried Hildebrand, Leipzig (II / 13)
    • 1909 New building by the company Schmidt & Berger (successor to Kreutzbach ), Borna (II / 20), irreparably damaged by unauthorized persons
    • 1991 new organ from the company Eule , Bautzen (II / 17)

Marienkirche

Marienkirche
  • Location: Lochmannstrasse 1
  • Period of construction: 1702–1703
  • Architect: The building is attributed to Johann Christian Senckeisen. The Marienkirche is a single nave baroque hall church.
  • Organs:
    • 1754, Johann Emanuel pork (I / 12)
    • 1899 new building by Georg Emil Müller, Werdau (II / 16), rebuilt in 1930 by Hans Michel, Crimmitschau (II / 20), 1953 general repair by Hermann Lahmann, Leipzig (II / 20), 1980 repair by Arwed Rietzsch, Rödlitz

Church of Galilee

Church of Galilee

The church with an early classical interior was built on the field stone base of the previous building from 1689/1690. In 1875 it received a neo-Gothic tower with a pointed helmet. In 1946 it was named "Church of Galilee".

  • Organs:
    • 1783, instrument of an unknown organ builder (I / 12)
    • 1906, new building by Alfred Schmeisser, Rochlitz (II / 18) , overhauled in 1929 by Oskar Ladegast , Weißenfels, and rearranged in 1962 by Reinhard Schmeisser

Immanuel Church

Immanuel Church
  • Location: Russenstrasse 24
  • Date of construction: around 1213
  • Architects: Master mason Thenau, master carpenter Hörnig (reconstruction 1818), Georg Staufert (reconstruction 1927)

The church, located in the middle of the village green on the former cemetery, burned down completely for the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig on October 18, 1813. It was rebuilt as a classicist rectangular hall. In 1927 an apse serving as a sacristy and two gallery stairwells were added to the side of the 18.2 meter high tower.

  • Organs: 1825, Johann Gottlob Mende , 1927, new organ using some pipes from the previous organ by Alfred Schmeisser, Rochlitz (II / 16)

Mercy Church

Mercy Church
  • Location: Opferweg 2
  • It was built in the second half of the 12th century

The Gnadenkirche is a hall church with a retracted, three-sided closed choir and west tower. The Kirchberg in Wahren was already settled in the 10th to 12th centuries.

  • Organs:
    • 1699, used work by an unknown organ builder from Taucha (II / 12)
    • 1866, organ from Zöllner, Hubertusburg, which was originally built for Zschirla near Colditz (I / 12)
    • 1929, new building by the company Gebrüder Jehmlich , Dresden (II / 21), changed around 1940 by Jehmlich and 1985 by Rietzsch, Rödlitz

Laurentiuskirche

Laurentiuskirche
  • Location: William-Zipperer-Strasse 147
  • Construction time: oldest parts from the 15th century
  • Architects:
  • Hugo Altendorff (conversion 1890), August Hermann Schmidt, Arthur Johlige (conversion 1900), Josef Hesse (parish hall 1922)

The medieval choir tower church was rebuilt in 1890 and 1900. The tower height is 30 meters. Next to the church is the rectory (rectory and parish barn from 1753). At the back of the rectory is the parish hall from 1922.

  • Organs:
    • 1728, work of an unknown organ builder
    • 1830, new organ by Johann Gottlob Mende , Leipzig
    • 1900, new building by Gebrüder Jehmlich , Dresden (II / 19), rearranged in 1958 by Hermann Lahmann, Leipzig, general overhaul by Jehmlich from 2000–2002

Gustav-Adolf-Kirche Lindenthal

Gustav Adolf Church
  • Location: Lindenthaler Hauptstrasse 11
  • Date of construction: around 1720

The name of the unified baroque church is intended to recall the Swedish king Gustav Adolf , who in 1631 defeated the numerically superior army of the imperial under Tilly in the battle near Breitenfeld, which belongs to the parish of Lindenthal , and is therefore considered to be the savior of Evangelical Saxony.

Church Wiederitzsch

Church Wiederitzsch
  • Location: To the school (formerly Schulstrasse), corner of Bahnhofstrasse
  • Time of construction: oldest parts from the 12th century

The Romanesque choir tower church was renovated in the late Gothic period. Inside there are three late medieval terracotta reliefs and the Heinrichs bell, cast around 1300.

  • Organ: 1902, Friedrich Ladegast , Weißenfels (II / 9), 1995 by Johannes Lindner, Radebeul, overhauled

Seehausen Church

Seehausen Church
  • Location: Seehausener Allee 33
  • It was built: 13th century

The choir tower church, which is Romanesque in its core, was rebuilt inside and out in 1715 and given a Baroque style. The west porch dates from 1877.

  • Organ: 1872, romantic organ by Eduard Offenhauer, Delitzsch (II / 12)

Göbschelwitz Church

Göbschelwitz Church
  • Location: Göbschelwitzer Straße 75
  • Construction time: Romanesque

The nave of the originally Romanesque choir tower church was rebuilt in 1857 in the neo-Gothic style. The altar painting is by Max Alfred Brumme . A comprehensive renovation took place in 1998.

  • Organ: 1859, romantic organ by Eduard Offenhauer, Delitzsch (II / 11)

Gottscheina church

Gottscheina church
  • Location: Am Ring
  • Construction time: 17th century
  • Architect: Richard Füssel (new tower built in 1854)

The simple hall church was redesigned in the classical style in 1827. In 1892 the machine manufacturer Karl Krause bore the costs for the renovation of the church tower.

Hohenheida Church

Hohenheida Church
  • Location: Am Anger 67
  • Construction time: 13th century, rebuilt in 1715

The Romanesque hall church was redesigned in Baroque style in 1715/16, and the hall was rebuilt and extended. The church received a new tower as early as 1689.

Martinskirche Plaussig

Martinskirche
  • Location: Grundstrasse 17
  • Date of construction: 1726

The interior of the graceful church was redesigned in baroque style in 1772. The Gothic north portal (around 1530) comes from the previous building, as do the bells (cast in 1400 or 1439), which are among the oldest in Leipzig and the surrounding area.

  • Organ: 1881, Eduard Offenhauer, Delitzsch (II / 13), 1990 by Johannes Lindner, Radebeul, extensively restored

Pankratius Church Engelsdorf

Pankratiuskirche
  • Location: Kirchweg
  • It was built: around 1170

In 1832 the nave was rebuilt as a classical hall building. In 1863 a new, higher tower dome in an octagonal shape was added. After the clockwork was stolen, that of the demolished St. Mark's Church was installed in 2005.

  • Organs:
    • 1770 purchase of a positive made by Johann Emanuel pork for the Leipzig Thomas School (I / 4)
    • 1924 new organ by Alfred Schmeisser, Rochlitz (II / 12)

Althen Church

Althen Church
  • Location: Althener Anger
  • It was built at the end of the 13th century

The tower of the church stands in the east above the chancel. In 1714 the church was redesigned in baroque style.

  • Organ: 1855, Urban Kreutzbach , Borna (II / 11), 1957 by Reinhard Schmeisser, Rochlitz, completely overhauled

Hirschfeld Church

Hirschfeld Church
  • Location: Hersvelder Straße 31
  • It was built: beginning of the 13th century; In 1721 it was rebuilt in a simple baroque style
  • Organs:
    • 1772, Johann Christian Friedrich Flemming , Torgau
    • 1885, installation and expansion of an organ from the private property of a Herr Wunsch from Leipzig by Gottfried Hildebrand, Leipzig (I / 7), the organ only has wooden pipes except for the viola de gamba (tin) register, completely overhauled in 2002 by Lindner, Radebeul

Baalsdorf Church

Baalsdorf Church
  • Location: Baalsdorfer Anger, Mittelweg
  • Period of construction: late Romanesque

The interior of the church was redesigned in baroque style in 1748. The choir stalls and the sacrificial box came here from the devastated Cröbern in 1970 .

  • Organ: 1883, Richard Kreutzbach, Borna (II / 11)

Mölkau Church (Zweinaundorf)

Mölkau Church
  • Location: Zweinaundorfer Straße, Kantor-Schmidt-Weg
  • Date of construction: 1614; The church was partially demolished in 1709 and rebuilt by 1710. In 1906 it was rebuilt in Art Nouveau style.
  • Organ: 1865, Friedrich Ladegast , Weißenfels (I / 9), rearranged in 2000 by Johannes Lindner, Radebeul

Holzhausen Church

Holzhausen Church
  • Location: main street
  • It was built: around 1150

A few smaller alterations are documented, such as a major alteration in the summer of 1677 and in 1768, which probably almost amounted to a new building. During the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , the church burned down and was rebuilt in classicist style until 1818, the tower was added in 1857. The archway in front of the church from the old ensemble with cemetery and church school collapsed during a storm in December 2004 and was rebuilt true to the original in 2005. The church is located in the middle of the main street in Holzhausen and thus divides it into two parts. This creates a special field of vision.

  • Organ: 1830–1831, Johann Carl Friedrich Lochmann, Delitzsch (I / 12), overhauled in 1985 by Hermann Lahmann, Leipzig, restored by V. Wiesner in 2005/06

Zuckelhausen Church

Zuckelhausen Church
  • Location: Zuckelhausener Ring
  • It was built: first half of the 13th century

The originally Romanesque hall church was rebuilt in 1791 and during the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig the church lost most of its medieval inventory due to a fire. The state of the church after the restoration in 1821 has largely been preserved to this day. The silhouette of the Zuckelhausen village center is largely determined by the building standing on a noticeable hill. Particularly noticeable is the roof turret on the nave, which had to be renovated and secured in the early 2000s due to the acute risk of collapse. The nave has a simple classicist interior with Tuscan columns, a coffered ceiling and galleries. In the choir, which is dominated by a three-winged altar, Romanesque structures such as the round arch and Romanesque paintings have been exposed.

  • Organ: 1784, Adam Gottfried Oehme, restored in 1822 by Johann Gottlob Mende (I / 14), restored in 1996 by Johannes Lindner, Radebeul

Liebertwolkwitz Church

Liebertwolkwitz Church
  • Location: Kirchstrasse 3
  • Period of construction: originally Romanesque; the church was destroyed by fire in 1572. In 1702 the Romanesque tower base was given a baroque finish.
  • Organ: 1890, Gottfried Hildebrand, Leipzig (II / 24), 1994/95 by Christian Scheffler, Frankfurt / Oder, restored

Schönau Church

Schönau Church
  • Location: Schönauer Strasse 245
  • Construction time: 15th century

The early Gothic, rectangular hall church with the square choir tower shifted to the north once stood in the middle of the village of Schönau, which apart from the school (today the cantor's council) and a farm had to give way to the residential complex 5 / I of the Grünau development area from 1976 onwards . In 1875 the tower was rebuilt (octagonal upper floor with a pointed helmet). In 1985 a fire broke out in the church.

  • Organs:
    • 1843, first organ
    • 1877, instrument from private ownership (II / 5, a harmonium was built in as the second manual )
    • 1923 Installation of an instrument that was built in Merseburg in 1855, rebuilt by Kohl and Hildebrand and later moved to Rückmarsdorf (II / 11), then it was rebuilt again by Schmeisser, Rochlitz (II / 12), pipework on 1978 in The parts that remained in the church had been exposed to all weather conditions for two years since 1985

Lausen Church

Lausen Church
  • Location: Lausener village square
  • Construction time: originally Romanesque

The church was redesigned in the late Gothic style in 1514, and further alterations took place in 1833. The Lausener village church is the smallest church in the Leipzig area.

  • Organ: 1832, builder unknown (I / 6), overhauled in 1957 by Hermann Lahmann, Leipzig and 1986 by Arwed Rietzsch, overhauled in 2004 by Gerd-Christian Bochmann, Kohren-Sahlis

Miltitz Church

Miltitz Church
  • Location: Miltitzer Dorfstrasse 11
  • It was built in 1739
  • Architect: Johann Christoph Steinmüller

The baroque choir tower church was rebuilt in 1908.

  • Organs:
    • 1846, Friedrich August Eckhardt, overhauled in 1893 by Gottfried Hildebrand, Leipzig
    • 1941–1943 New building in the old housing by Alfred Schmeisser, Rochlitz (II / 15), cleaned in 2008 by A. Voigt, Bad Liebenwerda

Apostle Church

Apostle Church
  • Location: Dieskaustraße, corner of Huttenstraße
  • Date of construction: 1217
  • Architect: Julius Zeißig (reconstruction 1904–1908)

A one-yoke choir head was inserted into the Romanesque tower choir church in the late Gothic period. The church was consecrated on August 18, 1217. When the church was rebuilt in 1904–1908, the tower was raised by 6 meters to 33 meters and the western front was clad with a neo-baroque façade, in which the seated figures of Peter and Paul created by Johannes Hartmann in 1926 were placed. This is how it was named Apostle Church.

  • Organs:
    • 1679 first organ
    • 1714 new organ by Georg Theodorus Kloß, Weißenfels
    • 1787 new organ by Gottlob Göhlich, Leipzig (II / 20)
    • 1908 New construction of a fourth organ behind the prospectus from 1787 by Wilhelm Rühlmann , Zörbig (II / 21), in 1962 by Hermann Lahmann, Leipzig, redesigned and enlarged by two stops, re-voiced in 1969

Rehbach Church

Rehbach Church
  • Location: Rehbacher Anger
  • It was built: late Gothic

The choir tower church was rebuilt in 1705, it received a baroque interior and the tower was raised. It was rebuilt in 1856 and renewed in 1872 after being struck by lightning. To the right of the altar is a Christmas window from 1906.

  • Organ: 1856, Christian Carl David Beyer, Großzschocher (II / 16), overhauled in 1963 by Reinhard Schmeisser, Rochlitz

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Andreas Chapel
  • Location: Rundkapellenweg (formerly Alte Straße)
  • Construction time: before 1100
  • Architect: Gerhart Pasch (restoration from 1972)

The western part of the hall church is the remainder of a round chapel built on the model of the chapel of Groitzsch Castle (today ruin) and thus the oldest preserved church room on Saxon soil. The apse was demolished at the end of the 15th century to make room for a hall extension, the windows of which were enlarged again in the Baroque era, and the original round chapel was given a tower top. A lightning strike in 1972 that severely damaged the spire, so that it had to be removed, required extensive repairs. The choir was spatially separated from the round chapel and provided with its own entrance. The Romanesque round chapel with its apse was restored in the original shape of the interior.

Rückmarsdorf Church

Rückmarsdorf Church
  • Location: Brandensteinstrasse
  • It was built: 12th century

The church was rebuilt in 1715. In 1906 and 1982–1985 renovations took place, with the separation of a community room.

  • Organs:
    • 1854–1855, Kohl, Leipzig
    • 1904 new building by Alfred Schmeisser, Rochlitz, in the late romantic style, changed by laypeople around 1980, partially repaired by Arwed Rietzsch after 1986 (II / 21)

Gundorf Church

Gundorf Church
  • Location: Gundorfer Kirchweg 2
  • It was built at the end of the 12th century

The Romanesque west tower church is one of the most valuable churches in the Leipziger Land and one of the oldest of its kind. The tower hall and church interior have been redesigned with Art Nouveau elements.

Grove Church St. Vinzenz Lützschena

Grove Church
  • Location: Elsteraue 7
  • It was built at the end of the 12th century

Around 1480 the hall-like nave was expanded to include a Gothic choir. In 1905, the church was fundamentally rebuilt, including the tower and additional buildings. The interior was changed in a mixture of historicism and art nouveau.

Lützschena Castle Church

Castle Church
  • Location: Schloßweg
  • It was built: early 16th century

The late Gothic building with a rectangular hall and recessed choir was rebuilt in 1855 according to romantic ideas. The interior was designed in a classical style in 1823.

  • Organ: 1894, Gottfried Hildebrand, Leipzig (II / 11), rearranged in 2002 by Gerd-Christian Bochmann, Kohren-Sahlis

New Church of the Redeemer

New Church of the Redeemer
  • Location: Dauthestraße 1 a
  • Period of construction: 2004–2006
  • Architect: Ulf Zimmermann

According to the will of the GDR authorities, the square on which the old Church of the Redeemer, which was destroyed in the war, was to remain empty. In exchange, the congregation received a new church building site, on which the ruins of the St. George's Chapel (former prayer room of the St. Georg forced labor institution ) were located, which was also destroyed in the war . In the absence of a separate building, the services were held in the chapel of the Salomon Foundation on Oststraße. Since this could no longer be used from 2004 onwards, it was decided to hold an architectural competition in the summer of 2003 for the long-planned new building of a church with a community center. Following the decision of the jury on September 26, 2004, the foundation stone was laid on May 12, 2005. The new church was inaugurated as part of a festival service on Pentecost Sunday 2006 (June 4th). The church has a free-standing bell tower.

Gethsemane Church

Gethsemane Church
  • Location: Raschwitzer Straße
  • Construction time: 1877
  • Architect: Hugo Altendorff

The simple neo-Romanesque building with a flat-roofed rectangular hall of 5 axes has a circumferential wooden gallery on iron supports inside. The material of the old Lößniger village church was reused in the construction. The construction costs were very low at 35,000 Reichsmarks including furnishings, so that the church was considered the cheapest new church in Saxony at the time. In 1977 there was a new interior painting and the installation of the crucifix (Franz Schneider, 1884) from the altarpiece of St. Mark's Church. The church has a tower gable 24.5 meters high.

  • Organ: 1878, Conrad Geißler, Eilenburg (II / 10), 1914, 1925 and 1927 by Oskar Ladegast, Weißenfels, changed several times, most recently in 1963 by Hermann Lahmann, Leipzig, largely redesigned (II / 12), thorough restoration in 1988

New Apostolic Church Leipzig-Mitte

New Apostolic Church
  • Location: Sigismundstrasse 5
  • Period of construction: 1911–1912
  • Architects:
    • F. Otto Gerstenberger
    • Gustav Wadewitz (reconstruction from 1946)
    • Rüdiger Sudau (reconstruction 1992–1994)

The church hall, which was influenced by Art Nouveau, had a cantilevered arched ceiling supported by a three-hinged steel frame. After severe war damage, reconstruction of the church began in 1946. In 1949 the church hall was given two side galleries. The complete reconstruction took place in 1992–1994. A glass entrance hall was placed in front of the building and the arched ceiling in the church hall was removed so that the steel roof structure from the time it was built was visible again.

  • Organs:
    • 1912, Link, Giengen (II / 17), destroyed in 1943
    • 1949/50, Jehmlich Brothers , Dresden (II / 28)
    • 1994 New building by the Jehmlich company , Dresden (II / 35)

Holy Cross Church

Church of the Holy Cross
  • Location: Neustädter Markt 8, Neustadt-Neuschönefeld
  • Period of construction: 1893-1894
  • Architect: Paul Lange

The church is a red neo-Romanesque facing brick building. The tower height is 67.5 meters.

  • Organ: 1894, Hermann Eule , Bautzen (II / 32) with neo-Romanesque prospectus, largely redesigned in 1938 by the Eule company, repaired in 1985 by Arwed Rietzsch, Rödlitz

St. Luke Church

St. Luke Church
  • Location: Volkmarsdorfer Markt (until 2011 Ernst-Thälmann-Platz)
  • Period of construction: 1891-1893
  • Architect: Julius Zeißig

The church has an open, hall-like nave in the style of late historicism. It was inaugurated on March 19, 1893. The height of the tower is 71 meters.

  • Organ: 1893, Wilhelm Rühlmann , Zörbig (II / 32), 1936 and 1939 heavily modified by the Jehmlich company , Dresden (II / 34)

Emmaus Church

Emmaus Church
  • Location: Wurzner Strasse 160
  • Construction time: 1898–1900
  • Architect: Paul Lange

The brick building, clad in leather-yellow bricks from Ullersdorfer Werke, has a 66-meter-high west tower with an octagonal top and a Baroque hood.

  • Organ: 1900, Richard Kreutzbach (II / 32), 1927 installation of new prospect pipes made of zinc by organ building company Johannes Jahn , Dresden, 1937 redesign by Alfred Schmeisser, Rochlitz (III / 33)
  • Literature: 100 Years of the Emmaus Church 1900–2000. Brochure (A5 format; 28 pages), Leipzig 2000, editor: Dr. Otti Margraf

Memorial Church

Memorial Church
  • Location: Ossietzkystraße 39, Zeumerstraße
  • Period of construction: 1816–1820
  • Architect: Walther Friedrich, Carl Friedrich Kind

It is a building influenced by early classicism in the tradition of the baroque country church. In 1869 the interior was renovated with a major change in the spatial impression. Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck married on September 12, 1840 in the Gedächtniskirche . On March 19, 1916, the church was renamed the Gedächtniskirche after the entrance hall had been redesigned as a memorial for those who fell in the First World War. The tower height is 50 meters. Next to the church is the Eberstein grave pyramid.

  • Organs:
    • 1820, Johann Gottlob Mende (II / 20, the first organ that Mende - still on behalf of his master Karl Albrecht von Knoblauch, Halle - built completely independently), 1883 repaired and rebuilt by Gottfried Hildebrand
    • 1898 replacement by a new building by Richard Kreutzbach , Borna (II / 24), repaired in 1915 and 1948 by Hermann Lahmann
    • 1974 New building by the company Eule , Bautzen (II / 29)

Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family

Church of the Holy Family
  • Location: Ossietzkystraße 60
  • Construction time: 1928
  • Architects:
    • Bensch, Rudolf Peuser
    • Andreas Marquardt (renewed 1951)
    • Peter Week, Friedrich Press (remodeling 1971–1975)

The emergency church, built in the "triangular style", was renovated in 1951 and 1961 and completely redesigned from 1971 to 1975 in accordance with the requirements of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . In 1993 it received an extension with a parish hall, community rooms and apartments.

  • Organ: 1989 consecration of a new organ

Kingdom Hall Complex of Jehovah's Witnesses

Kingdom Hall Complex
  • Location: Heiterblickstrasse 32
  • Construction time: 1996

The six-room Kingdom Hall complex is designed as a simple modern functional building.

Sommerfeld Church

Sommerfeld Church

The neo-Gothic church was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in the 1950s. A pointed tower in the west was put back on in the 1990s.

Roman Catholic St. Gertrud Church

St. Gertrud Church
  • Location: Engelsdorfer Straße 298
  • Period of construction: 1984–1986

It is a simple church building with a 14 meter high tower. A new community center was opened in 2001.

Kleinpösna Church

Kleinpösna Church
  • Location: Dorfstrasse, Kleinpösnaer Anger
  • Date of construction: 1852
  • Architect: Albert Geutebrück

The interior of the church, made of exposed quarry stone, was renovated by Paul Lange in 1892 .

  • Organ: 1851–1855, Albert Hermann Wolfram, Taucha (II / 16)

Portitz Church

Portitz Church
  • Location: Old Village 5
  • Period of construction: 1865–1867
  • Architect: Johann Ernst Wilhelm Zocher, August Friedrich Viehweger

The Portitz Church is one of the earliest neo-Gothic Protestant parish churches in and around Leipzig. In 1927/28 the exterior and interior of the church were renovated. In 1969/70 the eight-sided tower upper floor was demolished and the remaining square tower base was re-roofed with a pyramid roof. The church tower originally had a height of 44 meters. Another church renewal took place in 1974.

Paul Gerhardt Church

Paul Gerhardt Church
  • Location: Selneckerstraße 5
  • Construction time: 1898–1900
  • Architect: Julius Zeißig

The brick building with ashlar elements in porphyry is built in the neo-renaissance style with echoes of art nouveau. The four-axis hall church with a retracted square choir was named Paul Gerhardts in 1934 . Inside it has a wide pillarless hall with wooden galleries and a wooden stab cap barrel. The tower height is 60 meters. The church was damaged by air raids in 1943 and 1944, and the stained glass windows and interior decoration were lost.

In 2015–2016, renovation work was carried out on the tower.

  • Organs:
    • 1900 or 1902, Friedrich Ladegast & Son, Weißenfels (III / 33)
    • 1973 replaced by a new building from Schuke , Potsdam (III / 28)

Paul Gerhardt House

Paul Gerhardt House
  • Location: Selneckerstraße 7
  • Period of construction: 1926–1927
  • Architect: Richard Wagner

The parish hall of the Paul Gerhardt congregation is a plastered building with mighty stepped gables. It has a 150 m² hall with a gallery and stage. In the interior of the hall, the Art Deco decoration has been preserved on the pillars of the hall and the pilasters between the high windows. The interior is also largely preserved. The house was named Paul Gerhardts in 1999 .

Johanneskirche doze

Johanneskirche
  • Location: Markkleeberger Straße 25
  • Period of construction: 1933–1934
  • Architect: Georg Staufert

Simple hall church with choir and semicircular apse, plastered building made of NOFOT stones and demolition material from the interim church, which served the Andreas, Michaelis and Bethanien congregations at different locations. The construction took place on a separate area of ​​the former monastery property. The tower height is 11 meters.

  • Organ: early 20th century, WE Schmeisser & Sohn, Rochlitz (I / 8)

Trinity Church

Trinity Church
  • Location: Theodor-Neubauer-Strasse 16
  • Construction period: 1949–1950
  • Architect: Otto Bartning

The hall church is one of the 43 emergency churches built according to the design by Otto Bartning . The tower height is 24.5 meters.

  • Organs:
    • 1950 first construction phase (Rückpositiv and pedal) of a planned three-manual organ, Schuster, Zittau, 1965 sold to the Hoffnungskirche Knauthain
    • 1971 New building, Schuster, Zittau (II / 24)

Community Center St. Trinity of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (ELFK)

St. Trinity Community Center
  • Location: Sommerfelder Straße 63
  • Construction time: 1953

The Lutheran Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (ELFK) is located in the community center as a continuation of the training facility in Kleinmachnow .

Roman Catholic Church of St. Lawrence

Laurentius Church
  • Location: Witzgallstrasse 20/22
  • Period of construction: 1892-1893
  • Architects:
    • Hubert Kratz, Josef Meurer
    • Willi Schönfeld (renovation 1938)

The new Vincentiusstift building for poor, orphaned children in need of education was built together with an emergency church. A neo-Gothic high altar was erected in 1904 and the Laurentius altar in 1919. In 1938 the interior was completely renovated “in a simple way”. In 1965 the church was rebuilt for the new post-conciliar church service; the high altar was dismantled. Between 1973 and 1981, stained glass windows were created and installed from Kamenz according to designs by the artist Gottfried Zawadski . In 2003 there was a comprehensive renovation, in which the original painting on the triumphal arch to the chancel was partially reconstructed. The church has a roof turret with three church bells with the tones b, c sharp and dis - cast in 1964 by the traditional bell foundry family Schilling in Apolda .

  • Organs:
    • 1894, Schlag und Sons, Schweidnitz (II / 18), 1938 redesign by the company Eule , Bautzen
    • 1993/94 new building by the Jehmlich company , Dresden (II / 27)

Marienbrunn Church

Marienbrunn Church
  • Location: Lerchenrain 1
  • Construction period: 1927–1928
  • Architect: Georg Staufert

It is a two-storey parish hall with pilasters and a round arched portal, which shows decor in Art Deco shapes, corresponding to the style of the Marienbrunn garden city . At the rear there is a simple, vaulted church hall with a semicircular apse surrounded by two sacristies.

  • Organ: 1965, Schuke , Potsdam (I / 7)

Roman Catholic Merchant Memorial Church of St. Bonifatius

St. Boniface Church
  • Location: Biedermannstrasse 84
  • Period of construction: 1929–1930
  • Architect: Theo Burlage

The round church, which forms a uniform ensemble with the St. Elisabeth Hospital, is a total work of art in the style of Art Deco . The most important church building of the interwar period in Saxony was decided by the Catholic Merchants' Association to commemorate the 1,500 Catholic merchants who died in the First World War. The tower height is 27.5 meters.

  • Organ: The organ (II / 13) manufactured after the First World War by the company Jehmlich , Dresden, which was originally intended for the Andreas Church in Dresden, came here in 1935, expanded in 1938 by Jehmlich (II / 19), changed in 1978 by Lahmann, Leipzig (II / 17), overtaken in 2005 by Bochmann, Kohren-Sahlis

Friedenskirche

Friedenskirche

The neo-Gothic building was named in 1902 in memory of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71.

Methodist Bethesda Church

Bethesda Church
  • Location: Blumenstrasse 74
  • Period of construction: 1929–1930
  • Architect: Georg Staufert

The church, built by Leipzig architect G. Staufert in the style of the Werkbund and Bauhaus as a functional "group building", has community rooms, a church hall and living rooms in one building. In 1954 she received stained glass windows in the church interior based on a design by Max Alfred Brumme .

  • Organ: 1954–1955, A. Schuster & Sohn, Zittau (II / 16)

Church of Reconciliation

Church of Reconciliation
  • Location: Franz-Mehring-Straße 44 (formerly Clausewitzstraße)
  • Period of construction: 1930–1932
  • Architect: Hans Heinrich Grotjahn

The plastered and painted white reinforced concrete skeleton building in the New Objectivity style has vertical ribbon windows on the tower. The tower height is 43 meters.

  • Organs:
    • 1932, Furtwängler & Hammer , Hanover (III / 33) in an adjoining room to the right of the altar closed by hollow bodies arranged like a grid, completely restored in 2004/05 by Christian Scheffler, Sieversdorf
    • In the celebration church since 1976 positive of the Hermann Eule company , Bautzen (I / 5)

Roman Catholic St. George Church

St. George Church
  • Location: Platz des July 20, 1944 (formerly Jägerplatz)
  • Period of construction: 1922–1923
  • Architect: Clemens Lohmer

The peculiar flat arched basilica is built in an eclectic style. 1967-1969 there were changes inside as a result of the Second Vatican Council . The tower height is 13.3 meters.

  • Organs:
    • 1933 Installation of an organ made by Jehmlich , Dresden, from 1922
    • Replaced in 1970 by the electronic organ from PGH Musikelektronik Geithain (II / 40, sold to the Catholic Church in Zwenkau in 1987 )
    • 1985 Installation of an organ by an unknown organ builder from 1830 from the Kahlwinkel church (I / 8), 1997 general repair

St. Trinitatis Church of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK)

St. Trinity Church
  • Location: Kleiststrasse 56
  • Construction period: 1949–1950

The building is one of the five emergency churches that the Lutheran Free Church in Germany received as wooden barracks from Sweden after the Second World War.

Roman Catholic St. Gabriel Church in Wiederitzsch

St. Gabriel Church
  • Location: Georg-Herwegh-Straße 7
  • It was built: from 1968, consecrated on March 21, 1970.
  • Architect: Peter Weeck ( Halle / Saale )
  • Sculptor: Friedrich Press

The functional building has a prestressed concrete shell roof (made of HP shells for industrial construction) as well as a steel-glass wall and triangular clinker side walls.

Church of the Resurrection

Church of the Resurrection
  • Location: Georg-Schumann-Straße 184 (formerly Hallesche Straße)
  • Period of construction: 1900–1901
  • Architect: Paul Lange

As an emergency church, the church was mostly half-timbered, later it was to be replaced by a solid structure. The tower height is 32 meters.

  • Organ: 1766, Johann Emanuel pork , rebuilt in 1841 by Johann Gottlob Mende and 1870–1873 by Carl Bernecker, moved here in 1901 by Gottfried Hildebrand from the old Reformed Church at Thomaskirchhof , 1982–1984 reconstruction by Hartmut Schüßler, Greiz, 2004 rebuilding by Ekkehart Groß, Waditz (II / 25) - today the oldest organ in Leipzig

Roman Catholic parish and monastery church of St. Albert

Parish and monastery church of St. Albert
  • Location: Georg-Schumann-Straße 336 (formerly Hallesche Straße)
  • Period of construction: 1951–1952
  • Architect: Andreas Marquardt

The hall church with a high portal arch on the gable side is made in simple forms of plastered brickwork with white paint. It has a bell tower on the east side.

  • Organ: 1952–1954, Alfred Schmeisser, Rochlitz (II / 19)

Heilandskirche

Heilandskirche
  • Location: Weißenfelser Straße 16, corner of Erich-Zeigner-Allee (formerly Elisabethallee)
  • Period of construction: 1886–1888
  • Architect: Johannes Otzen

It is a hall church in the historicizing style of the brick Gothic as a brick building. In 1981 the entire church space was subdivided by inserting a false ceiling at the height of the gallery. The upper floor was set up as a church room. The tower height is 86 meters. The church thus has the second tallest steeple in Leipzig.

  • Organs:
    • 1888, Sauer (III / 36), 1948 redesign by Jehmlich , Dresden, 1965 repair
    • additionally 1993 organ by Hans Kriek, Didam, Netherlands (I / 13)

Nathanael Church

Nathanael Church
  • Location: Roßmarktstraße, Nathanaelstraße (formerly Burgauenstraße)
  • Period of construction: 1881–1884
  • Architect: August Hartel , Constantin Lipsius

The facing brick building is a neo-Gothic hall church based on the Eisenach regulation. The historicism building has largely been preserved (including the painting) in its original state. Since the late 1970s, church services have only been celebrated in the winter church; the nave served as a material store from 1989–1994. The wall organ , which is now in the Handel House in Halle (Saale), was temporarily stored in the community. Since 1994, services have been held in the nave again during the warmer season. The tower height is 74.25 meters.

Philip Church

Philip Church
  • Location: Aurelienstraße 54
  • Period of construction: 1907–1910
  • Architect: Alfred Müller

The uniform central room in moderate Art Nouveau forms was designed as a plastered brick building with rustic stone cladding. The church is one of only two churches in central Germany that were created according to the principles of the Wiesbaden program .

The church and rectory, which are at right angles to each other, form a unit. The 62.5 meter high tower has a richly decorated neo-baroque dome. The church is no longer used liturgically and has been managed by the Leipzig vocational training center since 2012 . It is to be converted into an integration company.

  • Organ: 1910, organ made by Jehmlich , Dresden (III / 63), behind an Art Nouveau facade, on the left a free-standing console. The general overhaul is currently being carried out by the organ building company Frank Peiter.

Catholic Apostolic Church

Catholic Apostolic Church
  • Location: Endersstrasse 31
  • Period of construction: 1899–1900
  • Architect: Julius Zeißig

The simple romanizing hall church was renovated inside in 1992 and outside in 1995.

  • Organ: Harmonium made by Smith American Organ & Piano Corporation from the late 19th century

Roman Catholic St. Theresa Church

St. Theresa Church
  • Location: At long field 29

The listed church is located in a converted residential building that also houses the St. Theresia daycare center, which was reopened in 1950.

Bethanienkirche

Bethanienkirche
  • Location: Stieglitzstrasse 42
  • Period of construction: 1931–1933
  • Architect: Carl William Zweck, Hans Voigt

The simple, axially symmetrical plastered building in the New Objectivity style has a 38.6 meter high donjon-like round tower in reinforced concrete skeleton construction. Organs:

    • 1933, new construction with the complete pipework of the Sauer organ from the interim church by the company Jehmlich , Dresden (III / 40), 1935, 1950, 1964 repairs and changes
    • 1992 new plant of the Jehmlich company (II / 28)
    • In addition, a positive from the Jehmlich company (I / 3) acquired in 1933 in the bridal hall , restored in 1957 after many pipes were stolen by the Eule company in Bautzen

New Apostolic Church Plagwitz

New Apostolic Church
  • Location: Karl-Heine-Straße 6
  • Period of construction: 1954–1956

The church building was built on the foundations of Max Klinger's studio in Karl-Heine-Straße.

Advent house of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Advent house
  • Location: Karl-Heine-Straße 8
  • Construction time: 1951

The building located on the property acquired by the community after the Second World War was converted into a new community center. In the back yard - the only one preserved in Germany - there is a wooden emergency church of the Seventh-day Adventists from the post-war period.

Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady

Church of Our Lady
  • Location: Karl-Heine-Straße 112
  • Construction time:
    • 1905–1906 (rectory)
    • 1907–1908 (church)
  • Architect: Anton Käppler

The church, built in the neo-Romanesque style, forms a closed building complex together with the rectory. The interior was renovated in 1964, and the last interior was painted in 1976. The church has a 45.5 meter high main tower. The two west towers are each 33.5 meters high.

  • Organs:
    • In 1915 the first organ that came from the university church was inaugurated
    • 1971–1972 new organ from Schuke , Potsdam (III / 37)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Location: Oeserstraße 39
  • Period of construction: 1984–1986
  • Design: Building Academy of the GDR, Institute for Housing and Social Building Dresden

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has no church buildings in the traditional sense, they erect " temples " that are only accessible to the Mormons themselves, as well as "meetinghouses", which is what we are talking about here.

Tabor Church

Tabor Church
  • Location: Windorfer Straße 49
  • Period of construction: 1902–1904
  • Architect: Richard Lucht, based on a design by Arwed Roßbach

The church building in neo-Romanesque style is modeled on a three-aisled Romanesque basilica without a transept. With the twin towers on the south side, the church is the only one in Leipzig with two main towers. The two towers are each 52 meters high.

  • Organ: 1904, Hermann Eule , Bautzen (II / 33), 1966/67 repaired, rearranged and expanded by Eule (II / 40)

Hope Church

Hope Church
  • Location: Seumestrasse 129
  • Period of construction: 1845–1846
  • Architect: Johann Ernst Wilhelm Zocher

The building is an octagon in the arched style with a bell tower in front. After it was first damaged by fire on January 3, 1937, the church burned down completely on February 22, 1944 after an air raid. The reconstruction took place in 1951–1955, and the two side entrances were walled up. In 1972 the slender octagonal tower upper storey, which ended in a point until it was destroyed in 1944, was demolished and the remaining square tower basement was completed with a pyramid roof. The tower height is 22 meters, originally the tower was 40 meters high.

  • Organs:
    • 1846, organ by Christian Karl Beyer, Großzschocher (II / 22), repaired in 1860 by Berger, Pegau, and in 1876 by Gottfried Hildebrand, Leipzig, destroyed together with the church in 1944
    • 1965, transfer of an organ torso (back positive, supplemented by parts of the pedal [eight registers], originally built in 1950 for the Trinity Church) by the Schuster company, Zittau, here

Pauluskirche

Pauluskirche
  • Location: Alte Salzstrasse 185
  • Period of construction: 1981–1983
  • Architect: Gerhart Pasch, Rainer Ilg

The church with community center was built as a four-wing complex with the support of the Evangelical Church in Germany . The bells of the church from the devastated village of Magdeborn are located in the free-standing bell tower .

Roman Catholic Church of St. Martin

St. Martin Church
  • Location: Kolpingweg 1
  • Period of construction: 1983–1985
  • Architect: Manfred Fasold

The church, which addresses the “tent of God among men” in its architecture, takes into account the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council with its centralized floor plan . It was financed by the Bonifatiusverein Paderborn as part of a special building program.

  • Organ: positive from Schuke , Potsdam, from 1974 (I / 8)

The bell tower is integrated into the corner of the building.

Böhlitz-Ehrenberg Church

Böhlitz-Ehrenberg Church
  • Location: Johannes-Weyrauch-Platz 2
  • Period of construction: 1926–1927

The building is entirely built in the Art Deco style. It is still in its original condition down to the last detail. The bells donated as early as 1910 are located in the free-standing bell tower, the roof and crown of which were renewed in 1999.

Roman Catholic St. Hedwig Church

St. Hedwig Church
  • Location: Pestalozzistraße 17
  • Period of construction: 1953–1954

The small, simply plastered building was created as an emergency church and is strongly reminiscent of the Dominican Church of St. Albert. It was financed by Catholics from what was then the Federal Republic. A comprehensive renovation took place in 1997.

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  • Alberto Schwarz: The old Leipzig - cityscape and architecture. Beucha 2018, ISBN 978-3-86729-226-9 .

See also

References and comments

  1. ↑ https://kirchgemeinde-holzhausen.de/ueber-unsere-kirchen/index.html
  2. ↑ Source: Church prospectus, undated (after 2013)
  3. ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony - an organ inventory. Ed .: Institute for Monument Preservation, Dresden Office. 319 pages, format <A4, Leipzig 1980, without ISBN. With bibliography on pp. 289–299. On the Hildebrandt organ: p. 187
  4. ↑ The other is the institutional church of the Diakonie in Halle (Saale) .
  5. ↑ Online publication: Harald Kirschner visits St. Martin - the photographer captured the beginnings of the Catholic community for eternity. Church community St. Martin Leipzig-Grünau, online portal, article about Harald Kirschner . Retrieved March 29, 2018 .