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The interior furnishings of Brinnis Church include: In the chancel of Brinnis Church, a tabernacle (circa 1480) and two figurative gravestones (second half of the 17th century); at the altar, a late Gothic, life-size crucifix (first half of the 16th century); in the south (beneath the tall, round triumphal arch of the 16th century, which connects the chancel and nave) a neo-Gothic wooden pulpit from 1830, which only received its current location during the last renovation; furthermore (from 1830): galleries in the south, west, and north of the nave; a classicist wooden baptismal font and a neo-Gothic organ with a five-part facade. The old Brinnis altar, a triptych, is lost. It was already out of use and partially damaged by the end of the 19th century and was later sold. Let us not mourn what is lost, but rather listen to what the bell from the tower calls us. There were once three bells; only one remains: the bronze bell from 1782, 128 cm in diameter. It bears the inscription: "The sermon announces the dead, as well as the sorrows, and is carried forth, and only my bell's sound awakens the heavy hearts everywhere." Source: https://www.pfarrbereich-schenkenberg.de/index.php/kirche-brinnis

What sustains the church and propels it forward are the dates of its renovations. A distinctive, difficult-to-decipher inscription stone on the outer eastern chancel wall reveals the year 1518. At that time, the church in Brinnis, with its 12th-century Romanesque nave and west tower (whose south wall still retains Romanesque round-arched windows), was extended by this three-sided, late Gothic chancel. A short time later, in 1557 – as an inscription stone on the north wall of the church tells us – the nave was raised. Further renovations took place in 1830, 1914, and 1968/69. At the end of 1968, Pastor Heine, who served in Brinnis for almost half a century, reported with great joy in a church newsletter on the painstakingly initiated and ultimately successful restoration of the Brinnis church. Past generations have repeatedly built upon this house of God, striving to preserve it – leaving their mark in stone as a reminder to us to continue the work. Source: https://www.pfarrbereich-schenkenberg.de/index.php/kirche-brinnis

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The richly decorated, polychrome sandstone baptismal font is adorned with angel heads and heraldic reliefs in gilded ornamentation, as well as an egg-and-dagger frieze. It is inscribed with Alexander von Miltitz and the year 1596; the base has been restored. In the chancel is a polychrome, two-story wooden epitaph of the von Miltitz family with double pilasters and sweeps of rich, gilded scroll and swirl decoration, as well as heraldic reliefs. It features kneeling relief figures of the deceased in the base, the Resurrection of Christ in the center panel, a relief of Jonah and the whale in the top, and God the Father with the year 1614 in the triangular pediment. Several figurative gravestones and magnificent figurative epitaphs of the von Miltitz family are made of sandstone and wood, richly decorated with heraldic reliefs, cartouches, and cartilage and foliage frames, as well as relief figures in contemporary costume from the 16th and 17th centuries. On the southern exterior wall, figurative pastoral gravestones with drapery, winged angel heads, and mourning putti from the 17th and 18th centuries have been preserved in sandstone. The organ, a work by Eule Orgelbau from 2000, features six stops on one manual and pedal, and was relocated here from the Bundeswehr Hospital in Leipzig in 2009.[1] Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfkirche_Schenkenberg_(Delitzsch)

The building was constructed in 1746 as a Baroque hall church using the Romanesque basement of the transverse west tower. Restorations took place in 1952, the interior in 1972, and 1996. The church is a quarry stone building with partial use of brick, with a straight east end and basket-arch windows. The patron's lodge is attached to the north, and the sacristy to the south. The octagonal tower upper story, made of faced timber framing, is crowned by a well-designed hood with a lantern. In the middle of the north and south walls, a portal decorated with coats of arms and framed by porphyry provides access to the interior. The building is enclosed inside by a flat plaster ceiling; wooden galleries on candelabra columns were installed on three sides in 1746. The floral painting of the gallery parapets was completed around 1900. Source https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfkirche_Schenkenberg_(Delitzsch)

The Schenkenberg Protestant Village Church is a Baroque hall church in the Schenkenberg district of Delitzsch in the Nordsachsen district of Saxony. It belongs to the Schenkenberg parish in the Torgau-Delitzsch church district of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfkirche_Schenkenberg_(Delitzsch)

Magnificent view of the Mulde from the bridge