Reformed Church

The community center, built in the neo-Renaissance style and designed by the architects Gerhard Weidenbach and Richard Tschammer, is considered the first example of a unified construction of a church and the adjacent preacher's house. The design was awarded first prize at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900.

At that time, churches were mostly free-standing buildings and rarely integrated into a block of houses. However, all of these normalities were discarded on Tröndlingring, north of the historic city center, and the first church was built between 1896 and 1899 to combine a preacher's house and a church in one building. It is equipped with a 67-meter-high tower and decorative elements such as bay windows, canopies, balustrades and balconies.

The church was badly damaged in the heavy bombing raid on Leipzig on the night of December 4, 1943. Reconstruction was completed in 1969, but the church had been used for services again since 1950. In 1989, the congregation took an active part in the Peaceful Revolution. It was the first church after St. Nicholas' Church to begin prayers for peace on October 2. On October 9, the demonstration was secretly filmed from the church tower. One day later, these images were shown on television.