Kirche Mockrehna, Church building in Mockrehna, Saxony.
Kirche Mockrehna is a fieldstone church with a rectangular tower and rounded apse in the Saxon town of Mockrehna. A conical roof crowns the tower, while the nave runs about 24 meters long and 10 meters wide.
The church was built around 1208. Until the first Lutheran visitation in 1525 it had its own parish, which then passed to Wildenhain; from 1925 to 2001 Mockrehna was again an independent parish. In 1705 the tower was reduced to six metres and rebuilt in its present baroque form, and the north and south doors were replaced by a sandstone portal on the west gable.
Catholic services have been held in the church since 1945, alongside the Protestant congregation of the Pfarrbereich Audenhain. The broad axe of the Pumphut legend, renewed in iron in 1835, is fixed in the spire and appears in the village coat of arms; a 1.80-metre bronze figure of the axe-throwing Pumphut by sculptor Gert Büttner stands in the village, and the local primary school bears his name.
The entrance is through a west-side annex with a hipped roof, which also houses the staircase to the gallery. The church stands in the village centre, surrounded by the historic cemetery; its enclosure is a rubble and fieldstone wall with beaver-tail coping. The street-side gate has square sandstone pillars with pyramidal tops.
Three bells hang in the tower from different eras, including a bronze bell cast in 1662. The second bell made of steel was cast in 1922 to replace one taken during World War I.
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