In many churches gravestones stand and lie, epitaphs stand or hang on
the walls. The church visitor often walks past them. When he looks at
them, the inscriptions are difficult for him to decipher, emblems and
iconographies are incomprehensible and the contents of the coats of arms
are mysterious and remain a riddle. In the present volume tombstones and
epitaphs of the Martin Luther Church Markkleeberg (formerly Gautzsch)
are recorded as holistically as possible: Monument owners,
materiality, condition, inscriptions are recorded and evaluated,
heraldic signs described and genealogically analyzed. In the present
volume tombstones and epitaphs of the Martin Luther Church Markkleeberg
(formerly Gautzsch) are recorded as holistically as possible: Monument
owners, materiality, condition, in and inscriptions are recorded and
evaluated, heraldic signs described and genealogically processed. The
memorial marks are thus made to speak supported by genealogical tables.
This is supplemented by the presentation of the oldest document on the
church at Gautzsch, a history of the bells, a description of the vasa
sacra of the church as well as prosopographies of the pastors and the
patronage members.