List of churches in Erfurt

This article contains historical church buildings in Erfurt ( Thuringia ).

overview

The old town of Erfurt is one of the most church-rich old towns in Germany, as the parish districts were structured in particularly small parts.

In the old town there were 38 church buildings (including the monastery churches), of which 27 are preserved today and 11 no longer exist.
In total there are still 35 church buildings in the inner city districts (Erfurt + Vorstädte + Ilversgehofen + Melchendorf), of which 13 are Protestant, 12 Catholic and 4 profane. Of 5 churches only the tower still exists and 1 church is in ruins.
There are a total of 42 other churches in the Erfurt villages, of which 36 are Protestant and 6 are Catholic.
Thus there are a total of 77 historical church buildings in Erfurt today.
In the old town of Erfurt there were also 14 monasteries, most of which also had a monastery church. These monastery churches are already included above.

Churches in the old town and the districts

church	Location	construction time	Size (length × width [m])	Architectural style	Denomination
Aegidia Church	Little market	1324	20 × 15	Gothic	Evangelical Methodist
All Saints Church	Marktstrasse / Allerheiligenstrasse	1371	30 × 20	Gothic	Roman Catholic
Andreas Church	Andreasstrasse / Webergasse	around 1350	30 × 20	Gothic	evangelical-union
Augustinian Church	Augustinerstrasse	1290	35 × 13	Gothic	evangelical-union
Barefoot Church (Franciscan)	Barfüßerstrasse	until 1350	80 × 30	Gothic	Ruin (since 1944)
Bartholomäuskirche	Anger	1412		Gothic	only the tower preserved (demolition of the church in 1668)
Boniface Church	Wagdstrasse	1729-31		Baroque	Roman Catholic
Brunnenkirche	Fischersand / Hermannsplatz	1253	30 × 10	Gothic	Roman Catholic
Christ Church	Brühlervorstadt, Tettaustraße	1912/1913	30 × 15	neoclassical	Evangelical Lutheran
Cyriak Chapel	Brühlervorstadt, in the area	1950		Bartning Diaspora Chapel	evangelical-union
Cathedral (Marienkirche)	Cathedral Square	1182	100 × 45	Gothic	Roman Catholic
George's Church	Michaelisstrasse / Georgsgasse	1380		Gothic	only the tower preserved (demolition of the church in 1632)
Gustav Adolf Church	Melchendorf, Singerstrasse	1900		neo-Romanesque	evangelical-union
Hospital Church (Holy Spirit Church)	Hospital place	1389	35 × 20	Gothic	no longer used in church
Johanneskirche	Johannesstrasse / Franckestrasse	1486		Gothic	only the tower preserved (demolition of the church in 1819)
Josefskirche	Ilversgehofen, Bogenstrasse	1893	25 × 12	neo-gothic	Roman Catholic
Carthusian Church (Salvatorkirche)	Kartäuserstraße	1375/1728	35 × 10	gothic / baroque	only the former baroque church has been preserved
Kaufmannskirche (Gregorkirche)	Anger	1368	40 × 25	Gothic	evangelical-union
Lorenz Church	Anger / Schlösserstraße	1300	30 × 20	Gothic	Roman Catholic
Lukas Church	Daberstedt, city route	1912			evangelical-union
Luther Church	Johannesvorstadt, Magdeburger Allee / Eislebener Straße	1927	40 × 30	Art deco	evangelical
Magdalenenkapelle	Kleine Arche / Rumpelgasse	1277	20 × 7	Gothic	since February 2014: used as a columbarium
Martini Church	Bruehl	before 1265 / reconstruction 1483	35 × 15	Gothic	Roman Catholic
Martinikirche (formerly Ilversgehofens village church)	Ilversgehofen, Tiergartenstrasse / Hans-Salier-Strasse	1821 (tower taken over from the previous building)	30 × 12	classicistic	evangelical-union
Michaeliskirche	Michaelisstrasse / Allerheiligenstrasse	1278	20 × 15	Gothic	evangelical-union
Neuwerkskirche (Cruciskirche)	Karl-Marx-Platz / Neuwerkstrasse	1473/1731	50 × 25	gothic / baroque	Roman Catholic
Nikolaikirche	Augustinerstraße / Comthurgasse	1360		Gothic	only the tower preserved (demolition of the church at the end of the 18th century)
Nikolaikirche (village church Melchendorf)	Schulzenweg	1899		new baroque	Roman Catholic
Paulskirche	Paulstrasse / Little Arche	1465		Gothic	only the tower preserved (demolition of the church in 1759)
Peterskirche	Petersberg Citadel	1147	75 × 35	Romanesque	no use as a church
Preacher Church (Dominican)	Predigerstrasse	1238	75 × 20	Gothic	evangelical-union
Reglerkirche (Augustinus Church)	Bahnhofstrasse	1130/1291	50 × 20	Romanesque-Gothic	evangelical
Schottenkirche (St. Nicolai and St. Jacobi)	Schottenstrasse	1140/1711	55 × 20	gothic / baroque	Roman Catholic
Severikirche	Cathedral Square	1270	60 × 40	Gothic	Roman Catholic
Thomas Church	Löbervorstadt, Schillerstrasse	1902	50 × 25	neo-gothic	evangelical-union
Ursuline Church	Anger	1235	30 × 15	Gothic	Roman Catholic
Wigbertikirche	Tanned well	1475	35 × 15	Gothic	Roman Catholic

Churches that no longer exist

church	Location	construction time	Architectural style	Time of destruction	reason
Albani Church	Bahnhofstrasse / Mühlgasse	12th century		1647	Order of the Swedish occupiers in Erfurt
Benedictine Church	Benediktsplatz / Krämerbrücke	1325	Gothic	1810/1895	Sale of the unused church for the extraction of building materials
Gotthardt Church	Gotthardtstrasse / Hütergasse	1182		1740/1858	Unused after the Reformation and deteriorated into ruins, the ruins were demolished in 1740, the tower was demolished in 1858 due to dilapidation.
Gangolfi Church	Bahnhofstrasse / Schmidtstedter Strasse	1350	Gothic	1875	Sale and demolition of the building now used as a school building
Inner Martinikirche [in contrast to the Martinikirche in Brühl outside the oldest city wall]	Schlösserstrasse	1415	Gothic	1736	Fire, then demolition of the ruin
Leonhard's Church	Petersberg	1172	Romanesque-Gothic	1945	Used as the citadel's armory since 1677, blown up in 1945
Matthias Church	Johannesstrasse / Futterstrasse	1181		1818	Used by French occupiers in 1806 as a horse stable, auctioned in 1811, demolished in 1818
Moritz Church	Moritzgasse 26/27	1193		1633/1814	Unused after 1604, in 1633 demolished by the Swedish occupiers, in 1814 demolition of the tower
Servatius Church	Parchamentergasse / tournament alley	15th century		1701/1716	Collapse in 1701, demolition of the ruins in 1716
Old Thomas Church	Löberstrasse / Rosengasse	1221	Gothic	1903	New construction of the Thomaskirche south in Schillerstraße, then demolition of the old church
Viticirche	Government Road / Long Bridge	1210	Gothic	1809	cancellation

Former monasteries

Augustinian hermits : in Erfurt from 1266
- → Augustinian Church
- Second location from 1663 on Meister-Eckehart-Straße, today the building is used by the authorities
Augustinian Canons : from 1117 in Erfurt
- → Reglerkirche
Augustinian women : from 1189 in Erfurt
- Monastery building in the cloister corridor in the southwest of the old town, secularized in 1819, completely demolished in 1881 (dilapidation)
Benedictines : from 1059 in Erfurt (conversion of the royal monastery into a Benedictine monastery)
- → Peterskloster
Irish Benedictines: from 1136 in Erfurt
- → Schottenkirche
Benedictine women : from 836 in Erfurt
- → Paul's Monastery
- first monastery on the southern slope of the Petersberg (836–1121)
- second monastery on the Cyriaksburg (1123–1478)
- third monastery on the eastern slope of the Petersberg (1486–1668)
- fourth monastery in Weidengasse (1689–1819 [secularized]), demolished in 1894
Dominicans : in Erfurt from 1229
- → Preacher's Church
Franciscans : from 1224 in Erfurt
- → Barefoot Church
Jesuits : from 1587 in Erfurt
- → Jesuit college (am Anger)
Carthusians : from 1371 in Erfurt
- → Carthusian Church
Magdalenerinnen : from 1196 in Erfurt
- → Ursuline monastery , the only remaining monastery in Erfurt
Servites : from 1310 in Erfurt
- Monastery building in Neuerbe in the east of the old town, demolished in 1710
Cistercian women : in Erfurt from 1207
- → Martinikirche ; Some of the monastery buildings on Brühler Strasse still exist

pencils

The Erfurt Cathedral , Severikirche and Brunnenkirche were each connected to a monastery .

Monastery courtyards

Comthurhof of the Teutonic Knights Order in Comthurgasse
Georgenthaler Hof on Mainzerhofplatz (not preserved)
Pfortaischer Hof at the Lehmann Bridge
Mainzer Hof on Mainzerhofplatz
Oldislebener Hof in Government Street 50/51 (not preserved)
Paulinzeller Hof in the Regierungsstrasse 52-55 (not preserved)
Reinhardsbrunner Hof in Government Street 44 (not preserved)

Steeples

What is striking about the steeples of the Gothic parish churches is that, in contrast to most of the other large medieval towns, they have a uniform design. They consist of a square stone shaft with a height of 23 meters ( Martinikirche ) to 37 meters ( Agidienkirche ), which is followed by a high, pointed helmet. This is made of wood (except for Johannes and Andreas Church). The tallest of these “unified church towers” is the Nikolaikirche with a height of 60 meters. The design language used in the construction of the Luther Church in 1926, which also received one of the uniform church towers, was quoted .

Village churches

A special feature is that the Erfurt rural villages were divided up due to the biconfessional nature of the city of Erfurt in the early modern period. Some villages became Protestant villages, others remained Catholic (the only Catholic village in Erfurt that is not a district today is Witterda in the Sömmerda district). These are highlighted in bold. Churches that are not village churches are shown in italics.