Genezarethkirche
Genezarethkirche stands in Paunsdorf, Leipzig, as an Evangelical-Lutheran hall church on a remarkably tight plot. A parish house, business building, and large residential block press close around the fieldstone structure, while its slender west tower rises above them.
Fieldstones formed the original church around 1689, before Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe expanded it in neoclassical style in 1783. The interior now presents a restored pulpit altar, two grave slabs, and a 1906 organ by Alfred Schmeisser with two manuals, a pedal, and 18 stops. Restoration returned its tin prospect pipes, replaced with zinc during the First World War, and brought the instrument back into use in 2011.
The tower holds two bronze bells, including one cast in 1461, while the four clock faces carry different inscriptions: “EHRE SEI GOTT”, “Dienet einander”, “Bete und arbeite”, and “ZEIT IST GNADE”. Near the entrance, a cross memorial bears the words “GOTTES FRIEDEN DENEN DIE IN FREMDER ERDE RUHEN”.
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