The Leppersdorfer village church, originally a burial chapel, was verifiably built after the Hussite Wars in the 15th century. The simple hall building, covered by a gable roof with a pointed eight-sided turret, and the sacristy to the east date from around 1680, the baptismal font, made of fired clay and provided with a tin basin, dates from 1794.
The interior is bordered at the top by a flat, painted field ceiling. The galleries, arranged on three sides, show rural paintings like the early baroque pews on the parapet fields. The design of the altar and pulpit is based on common motifs, in the middle under a round arch of the altar a crucifixion group and in the predella a scene of the Lord's Supper, as well as a representation of the four evangelists on the pulpit. The bell of the church consists of three bells from the 16th and 17th centuries. The small bell from 1538, the middle bell from around 1500 and the large bell from 1670 with markings (showing vine tendrils and coats of arms) are still in use today. The organ from 1990 has ten registers and is the work of the Bautzen organ manufacturer Hermann Eule, which replaced a previous structure from 1904. The Leppersdorfer Church is a branch church of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Nicolai parish in Pulsnitz.
The granite stone cross [10] on the northern wall of the cemetery is likely to remind of the Hussite Wars or a plague epidemic. In the cemetery there is also a memorial for those who died in the First World War. The sandstone distance column on the state road at the junction to Lichtenberg dates from 1836. Source: Wikipedia
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