Lutherkirche

Lutherkirche stands at the northwest end of Johannapark in Leipzig, beside the Forum Thomanum education campus. Its Neo-Gothic brick structure follows a cross-shaped plan and rises to a 65-metre tower on the north side. A stepped portal leads beneath a Villeroy & Boch mosaic showing the Lamb of God, the Book of Life, and a victory banner. The Luther rose appears above it, while statues of Peter and Paul stand on consoles nearby.

Julius Zeißig designed the church after its foundation stone was laid in 1883. Construction finished in 1886, making this the first new Protestant church in Old Leipzig since the sixteenth century. A fire damaged the building in 1888, and air raids in 1944 destroyed its roof and coloured windows. Later work added a wooden roof structure, renewed the roof again in 1990 and 1991, and created a heated multifunctional space for the campus.

Inside, a dark oak pulpit from 1886 displays the four evangelists with their traditional symbols. The hexagonal baptismal font combines sandstone and Rochlitz porphyry, standing 95 centimetres high. James Marshall’s 1889 altarpiece copies Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper on a smaller scale. A Kreutzbach organ with 28 stops accompanies services, concerts, baptisms, weddings, school events, performances, and recordings, while the Seyfferth family grave remains behind the church.