Collmen Church, place of worship for the Albert and Fischer families

Collmen is a village just east of the castle town of Colditz, Saxony.  The Collmen church was the place of worship for the Albert and Fischer families at least back to the 1770s.  Both families lived in Skoplau, a smaller village further east.  Johann Gottlob Albert was an elder of the church around the 1830s. 

The church was built upon much older ruins from the 1190s, where a monastery chapel once stood. 

In November 1735, Johann Sebastian Bach visited the church to attend a wedding between the Kriegel and Wendt families.