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1. Werbeliner Allee Cycle Path – View of Werbeliner See loop from Leipzig Olbrichtstraße

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2. View of the Mulde River – View of Lake Goitzsche loop from Peißen

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3. View of Werbeliner See – Schladitzer Lake loop from Leipzig Slevogtstraße

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June 15, 2024

When Count Dietrich von Brehna transferred various properties to a monastery on July 13, 1252, a Conradus marchalcus de Scinkenberch is also mentioned as a witness. This date is considered to be the first documented mention of Schenkenberg, which celebrated its 750th anniversary in the "year of the great flood" in 2002. At this time, a stone church already existed, as indicated by the lowest walls of the tower with its narrow Romanesque window. This building probably replaced what was surely an original wooden church as a parish church around 1200, if not a few decades earlier. This church building, which was built in our area during the transition from late Romanesque to early Gothic, served the community as a church for several centuries until 749. In that year, an octagonal half-timbered bell tower was added to the church tower, which was built in shell masonry made of rubble and fieldstone and faced with fired bricks. On the tower that grew in this way sits a flat Italian dome with a small lantern and a tapering tip to the weather vane and crowning star, which raises the tower to 38 meters above the ground. In the same year, the old church was demolished, the original height of which can still be seen on the tower wall under the current roof and whose length was around 17 meters with an attached chancel and certainly a Romanesque apse. The church now follows a baroque rectangular design of 22 meters in length with an attached sacristy, which can no longer be accessed from the nave, and a northern and southern patron's box (the southern one has been demolished). Formerly equipped with a double gallery and a simple wooden pulpit altar, next to an organ donated by the manor owner August Wilhelm Weck in 1791, a painted ceiling with stucco elements and colored windows, this equipment served the community as a spiritual home until the 1970s, more or less well preserved.

Source pfarrbereich-schenkenberg.de/index.php/kirche-schenkenberg

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Schakal

June 15, 2024

Then a big storm hit the roof and the water that penetrated it damaged the organ, ceiling and the rest of the interior. Following the fashion of the time, the double gallery was removed during the makeshift repairs and the pulpit altar was also demolished. In the course of the "wall-mounted cupboard culture" of that time, all baroque elements were removed, only the stone epitaphs such as the large wooden epitaph of the von Miltitz family from 1695 remained next to the baptismal font from 1596. The altar was replaced by a stone block with a wooden panel in scratch plaster style, plus yellow, dark-grouted clinker bricks and a brick pulpit, all covered with tiles made from materials available in the GDR and with a simple standing wooden cross in front of the east wall, the church was more reminiscent of a parade ground than a harmonious church building.

When new opportunities arose with the political upheaval and the restored unity of our German fatherland, the community set about gradually renovating the church with a lot of enthusiasm and support from both the public sector and church funds, as well as many "manual and hauling services" from the Schenkenbergers. From 1995 onwards, the tower was repaired, the roof structure of the nave was reworked, and the entire building was plastered and painted. Only the tiled roof was considered safe for another 20 years and was left as it was, while the spire was re-sheeted and slated.

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Schakal

June 20, 2024

Very beautiful old church

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Location: Delitzsch, Nordsachsen, Saxony, Germany

Schenkenberg Church

1. Werbeliner Allee Cycle Path – View of Werbeliner See loop from Leipzig Olbrichtstraße

2. View of the Mulde River – View of Lake Goitzsche loop from Peißen

3. View of Werbeliner See – Schladitzer Lake loop from Leipzig Slevogtstraße

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