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Town Church of Our Lady on the Hill Penig

Town Church of Our Lady on the Hill Penig

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Town Church of Our Lady on the Hill Penig

Name: Town Church of Our Lady on the Hill Penig
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Location: Penig, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany

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3. Johann Günzel Allee – Wolkenburg Mill loop from Penig

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Michi LE

December 13, 2023

construction time
14th century, 15th century, 16th century,
18th century, 19th century,
1380 (predecessor church, from which the chapel remains),
1476 to 1494 (tower), 1515 (consecration), 1780 to 1781 (spire)
1891 to 1896 (restoration, change to west gable)
Architectural style
Gothic, Baroque, Historicism
Builder/architect
Woldemar Kandler (1891 to 1896)
Condition
The Ev. City church in Penig has been renovated.
Todays use
sacred
Access
The Ev. The town church in Penig cannot be visited.

Description
type
The Ev. City church in Penig is a hall church.
Building structure
Plastered quarry stone building, seven-sided choir polygon, buttresses, tracery windows, north chapel with two-sided end, vestibule, north tower with octagonal upper floor and helmet, west portal, remains of a defensive wall in the cemetery
inner space
Field ceiling, tower basement with ribbed vault, vestibule with star vault, three-bay chapel with ribbed vault, altar structure, baptismal font, wooden crucifix, stained glass window, sandstone figures

Tombstones
Epitaph Hans Ernst von Schönburg (1586),
Epitaph Christof Friedrich von Schönburg (1607),
Bronze plate Cunradt Schantz (1530),
Epitaph Philipp von Hassenstein (1557),
Tomb of Burgrave Albrecht von Leisnig (1441),
Epitaph Eugenius Pistoris and wife Barbara von Milkau (1577),
Tomb of A. von Mansfeld (1570)

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Environment

The Ev. City church in Penig stands prominently above the old town of Penig in the cemetery.

Source: architektur-blicklicht.de/kirchen/penig-stadtkirche

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Traudel

November 3, 2023

The town church “Our Dear Women on the Mountain” is an important building in the late Gothic style that was built between 1476 (tower) and 1515.

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Wanderhase🐰

August 21, 2022

Beautiful church in the late Gothic style that can be seen from almost anywhere in the area in the center of Penig. The tower was built around 1476 & the main building around 1515.

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