History

In 1502/03, miners built St Marien Mountain Church on the market square as a place for the mining community to worship. This they financed through weekly contributions from their own wages. At four o’clock each morning, the bell of the mountain church called worshippers to early mass. No miner would have gone down the mine without God’s blessing and protection. Following the Reformation, the church was the last remaining miners’ church in Saxony.