The best city hikes and walks around Dam Neunzehnhain II

This is the relief map of Marienberg, not Zschopau.

A representative Renaissance building with a roof turret, erected by master builder Johann Hofmann, featuring an impressive portal with a seating niche by Michel von Speyer and Andreas Günther, it is of significant architectural, local historical, and urban planning importance. The town hall, which occupies a large part of the northwest side of Marienberg's market square, is, alongside St. Mary's Church, the most important building in the town from a historical and urban planning perspective. Its structural core dates back to the time of the town's founding, when it replaced a wooden predecessor from 1524 just a few years later. The portals and outer walls from the 16th century are preserved. The representative Renaissance building was erected by master builder Johann Hofmann. The two-story plastered building with rusticated corner pilasters has a massive hipped roof, crowned by a large roof turret in the form of a double lantern (dated 1685, renovated 1790). Source: Wikipedia

The Zschopau Gate, one of Marienberg's landmarks, was built as part of the town's fortifications after its founding between 1541 and 1560. The imposing tower, a rubble stone structure built on a square base, is the only remaining of the original five town gates. The large, round-arched gateway is faced with porphyry blocks, as is the pedestrian underpass to the southwest, which was added in 1956. In 1963, during renovation work, the gate sustained damage from tanks. In 1964, exhibition spaces for museum purposes were designed within the gatehouse, a project approved by the Institute for the Preservation of Historical Monuments. The damaged gate jambs were initially repaired with bricks, and later with dressed stone. To the southwest, a 30-meter-long and 2-meter-wide section of the town wall adjoins the gate. This section is reinforced on the town side with five blind arches and terminates in a transformer station, ingeniously constructed in 1914. Source: Wikipedia

View from the Crossroads

The church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of the same name in Lengefeld was rebuilt in 1885 on the site of a previous, smaller church that had serious structural defects after being struck by lightning and then burned down. The lower part of the tower of the old church was preserved. In addition, the Hildebrandt organ was transferred from the old church to the new one. The church has been almost completely renovated in several stages over the last two decades.

Church in Lengefeld, beautiful to look at.

In 1561 Marienberg was surrounded by a 2m thick city wall. This had 5 city gates and 4 round corner towers. The Zschopauer Tor is the only remaining city gate that borders the approximately 50m long remainder of the former city wall. At the end of this city wall there is a preserved postal column from 1727.

The church is open to visitors during the day.