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Location: Coswig (Anhalt), Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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breddy

June 2, 2022

The Lords of Lattorf, owners of the Klieken manor, had the first chapel built in 1504, which burned down a few years later. A new building was erected around 1545, the core of which has been preserved in the hall of the current church. Overlaps and recesses of former cleats in the eaves area as well as decorative cleats in the patron's box point to the early construction period in terms of construction and style. A dendrochronological examination of the foot bands determined the year 1544 as the felling date of the wood used. This means that the Klieken Church can be described as the oldest known half-timbered church in Saxony-Anhalt. After extensions, it now shows a cross-shaped floor plan with a straight east side and the patronage boxes attached to the south and north. The striking west tower was added in 1784 as a donation by Matthias August and Philip Friedrich Leberecht von Lattorf, as evidenced by an inscription above the main entrance.

Cranach altarpieces In 1980 the altarpieces by Lucas Cranach d.Ä. brutally torn from its hinges and robbed in the patronage church of Klieken near Coswig (Anhalt). They remained missing until the art historian Prof. Johannes Erichsen accidentally (or coincidentally) rediscovered them in the shop window of an antiquarian bookshop in Bamberg in 2006. In 2009 the plaques were able to return to Saxony-Anhalt and also to the Klieken Church for one day. Before the final return, however, not only the pictures, but above all the church had to be renovated, secured and brought into an appropriate condition. The measures, which have now been completed, cost 900,000 euros.

Source: landeskirche-anhalts.de

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Schakal

June 4, 2023

Very nicely restored church 👍

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Location: Coswig (Anhalt), Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Patronage Church Klieken

1. Elbe Cycle Path at Leiner Berg – Jagdbrücke bridge loop from Coswig (Anhalt)

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