Immanuelkirche

Immanuelkirche stands in Probstheida, southeast of Leipzig, on ground about sixty metres above the city centre. Its classicist exterior rises from the foundations of a much older church.

Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg initiated the first church here in the early thirteenth century. The building burned during the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and was rebuilt on its original foundations. The rebuilt church received its dedication in 1818 and later gained an apse, an external gallery staircase, and a new pulpit altar. The Schmeisser organ dates from 1927 and combines two manuals, a pedal, fourteen stops, and pipe material from an earlier Mende organ. Its bronze bells include a 1821 bell by Leipzig founder Johann Carl Berger, weighing 110 kilograms.

Restoration renewed the exterior and interior, with Leipzig artist Markus Zink creating the altar, baptismal font, and ambo. Two bronze bells cast in Innsbruck joined the historic bell in 2021, completing the church’s Te Deum peal. Church services, baptisms, weddings, funerals, and community gatherings continue inside this monument beside the parish house.