Martin Luther Church Markkleeberg

This church was built in 1717 in the High Baroque style according to plans by David Schatz. The porticoed pulpit altar, baptismal font and two partonate boxes also date from this period. These contain two Baroque portraits of particular value: a relief with a bust profile of Count Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel (1676-1749) and a marble bust depicting an unknown, elegantly dressed man. It is one of the church's outstanding works of art. It also has important epitaphs and tombs. 
The church has a rectangular flat-roofed nave with a three-sided east end. The organ façade was built in late Baroque style in 1800. At the beginning of the 20th century, the church was extended and a new tower was added according to plans by Julius Zeisig. The Jehmlich organ was installed in 1979. It originally came from the Magdeborn church, which fell victim to open-cast lignite mining;