List of epitaphs in the Paulinerkirche Leipzig

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This is a list of the epitaphs in the Paulinerkirche Leipzig .

Between the decision of the Leipzig city ​​council to demolish the Paulinerkirche on Ascension Day 1968 and the demolition on May 30, 1968, around 80% of the epitaphs could be recovered completely, almost completely or in part. It was restored from 2002–2014 by the custody of Leipzig University . Of these, 21 large and 6 smaller epitaphs were installed in the sanctuary of the Pauline Church between 2014 and 2017. These are:

  • North aisle

  • Epitaph for Johannes Hoppe

  • Epitaph for Daniel Eulenbeck

  • Epitaph for Christoph Finolt

  • North face

  • Epitaph for Johannes Miller

  • Epitaph for Johannes Mühlmann

  • Epitaph for Magdalena Richter

  • East wall

  • Entombment of Christ

  • Epitaph for Michael Heinrich Horn

  • Epitaph for Gottfried Welsch and his wife Maria, geb. Anckelmann

  • Suspended areas between the pillars
  • Main nave

  • Epitaph for Johannes Olearius and his wife Anna Elisabeth, b. Müller

  • Epitaph for Georg Tobias Schwendendörffer

  • Epitaph for Johann Jacob Pantzer and Hedwig Elisabeth geb. Sultzberger

  • Northern slopes between the pillars

  • Epitaph for Anna Regina Welsch

  • Epitaph for Christoph Zobel

  • Epitaph Christian Lange

  • Epitaph for Hieronymus Kromayer and his wife Anna Justina, b. Schwendendörffer

  • Epitaph for Wilhelm von Ryssel

  • Southern slopes between the pillars
  • north aisle

  • Epitaph Ferdinand August Hommel

  • Epitaph for Benedikt Carpzov, his first wife Regina, b. Clausbruch and his second wife Catharina, b. Burchard

  • Epitaph for Georg Möbius and his wife Christine geb. Berlich

  • Northern slopes between the pillars

  • Epitaph for Heinrich Heideck

  • East wall
  • Heinrich Heideck

  • Epitaph for Caspar Borner

  • Epitaph for Johann Adam Schertzer

  • Epitaph for members of the Steger family

  • Epitaph for Christoph "Türk" von Kruschwitz

  • Epitaph for Joachim von Kneitlingen

  • South wall

Literature: "Goodbye world, I'm out of it now". Memorial inscriptions on tombstones and epitaphs of the St. Pauli University Church in Leipzig, edit. by Rainer Kößling and Doreen Zerbe, ed. v. Rudolf Hiller von Gaertringen, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2011 (= contributions to Leipzig University and Science History BLUWiG, Series A, Vol. 7)

Web link: https://kustodie.uni-leipzig.de/die-kustodie/projekte/epitaph-projekt/