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The Moritzburg Church is the church building of the Evangelical Lutheran church in Moritzburg, Saxony and is listed as a monument.

The 47 m high church was built from 1902 to 1904 according to the design of the Dresden architect Richard Schleinitz (1861-1916) for the then parish of Eisenberg-Moritzburg. On 26 September 1902 the foundation stone was laid and on 7 November 1904 the church consecration took place. The construction costs of the church amounted to 163,635 marks. It is remarkable at the church that the choir faces west and is not oriented east as usual.

The church is designed in the manner of a central building in neo-baroque forms and thus corresponds stylistically with the baroque Moritzburg Castle. Special features in the interior are the much older altarpiece &quot;Transfiguration Christi&quot; by Stefano Cattaneo (painted 1669 for the Elector Johann Georg II. of Saxony), the four evangelist stucco ornaments in the double dome and the organ built in 1904 by the Dresden organ building institution Gebrüder Jehmlich with a late romantic sound. It has 25 registers on two manuals and pedal.

During the war turmoil of World War II, the church was destroyed almost twice by fire. In April 1945 by the SS &quot;because of their exposed situation&quot; and on 7 May 1945 by the invading Soviet troops &quot;because wreaths hung at the gallery in honor of fallen with swastika loops.&quot; In both cases, the worst was prevented by the then pastor Otto Seibt (pastor from 1944 to 1957) and others.

After long years of no measures for building maintenance, a comprehensive renovation and restoration of the Moritzburg church finally began in 1992. For financial reasons, the work was divided into individual steps, which were completed in a period of approximately two decades, until it was possible to celebrate completion in the summer of 2010. Funding, grants (from the Federal Government, the State of Saxony and the Municipality) and private donations made it possible to raise the sum of over 2.4 million euros for the renovation.

The church is a venue for the Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival held annually in August.
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