Ev.-Luth. Kirche zu Wiederitzsch

Ev.-Luth. Kirche zu Wiederitzsch stands in Leipzig’s Wiederitzsch district as a plastered fieldstone and rubble-stone church. Its roots reach back to the twelfth century. The almost square chancel tower measures about eight metres across, with walls more than one metre thick. Stepped buttresses, two pointed-arch windows, and a slate-covered hipped roof define the exterior.

Romanesque features survive in the triumphal-arch capital, while the Gothic chancel holds a star vault and floral fresco. A 1877 rebuilding lengthened the nave, raised its roof, and moved the entrance west. Inside, a three-sided gallery surrounds the flat-ceilinged nave. The white-and-gold altar from 1695 shows the risen Christ beneath a glory wreath, with warriors and palm-shaped columns.

Zacharias Hildebrandt built a ten-stop organ in 1747, replaced by Friedrich Ladegast’s two-manual instrument in 1902. The Johannes Lindner workshop overhauled it in 1995, following a repair in 1985. The smallest of three bells dates from the thirteenth century and is Leipzig’s oldest bell. Seven French-limestone statues from Leipzig’s former Markuskirche now stand outside.