Marienkirche, Church building in Leuben, Nossen, Saxony, Germany

Marienkirche in Leuben, a district of Nossen, is a plastered hall church with a red-tiled roof and a west tower built on a late-Romanesque square base. The tower is topped by a baroque upper storey with a squat hood and onion dome. The nave has pointed-arch windows with tracery, a lower side annex with a round window and arched door, and a two-storey south extension housing the sacristy and patron's box. Inside, a net-ribbed vault rises over three bays, with wooden galleries along both sides and a neo-Gothic organ by Franz-Emil Keller (1890) at the east end.

The church stands on a rocky spur above Leuben, a village now part of Nossen; its west tower's cross-rectangular base is late Romanesque, probably 13th century. Around 1480 the nave was rebuilt under the patronage of the von Schleinitz family, reusing older masonry. A Baroque tower storey followed in 1740, and around 1890 Christian Gottfried Schramm renewed the sacristy and reshaped the interior.

The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and belongs to the Leuben-Ziegenhain-Planitz parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony. Inside, a painted wooden death shield commemorates Christof von Loß (died 1664) with a large coat of arms on the north choir wall.

The church stands on a rocky spur above the village of Leuben, part of Nossen, not in the town centre. The west tower keeps the width of the nave, and the south portal and north window date from 1890. Inside, the wooden gallery and seating follow Christian Gottfried Schramm's 1890 plans.

The church stands on a rocky spur above the village of Leuben, a district of Nossen, and was probably the seat of a castle ward in the time of the Ottonian emperors. In the vaulted ground-floor hall of the west tower, an iron grille from the 17th century and sandstone grave monuments are kept, including that of Rudolf von Rechenberg (d. 1555) showing an old man in full armour.