List of churches in Weimar

The list of churches in Weimar contains the church buildings in the independent city of Weimar in Thuringia .

Downtown

Church name	Location	Conf.	Remarks	Coordinates
Herderkirche (City Church of St. Peter and Paul)	Herderplatz, old town	possibly	Main church, current building in Gothic style, built from 1498 to 1500, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Classic Weimar	50 ° 58 ′ 52 " N , 11 ° 19 ′ 45" E50.981111111111 11.329166666667
Sacred Heart Church	August-Frölich-Platz, Weststadt	cath.	Catholic church of the city, built from 1889 to 1891 based on the model of the Florentine Cathedral	50 ° 58 ′ 44 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 13 ″ E50.978888888889 11.320277777778
Jakobskirche	At the Jakobskirchhof, Jakobsvorstadt	possibly	Baroque church building, built in 1713	50 ° 59 '0.2 " N , 11 ° 19" 38.5 " E50.983387 11.327358
Johanneskirche	Tiefurter Allee, Parkvorstadt	possibly	erected from 1938 to 1941	50 ° 58 ′ 59 " N , 11 ° 20 ′ 13.1" E50.98305 11.33698
Kreuzkirche	Böhlaustraße, Westvorstadt	possibly	built in 1899 as the English church "Saint Michael and All Angels"	50 ° 58 ′ 36 " N , 11 ° 18 ′ 49" E50.976666666667 11.313611111111
Russian Orthodox Chapel	Historic cemetery, Südstadt	russ.-orth.	Erected as Maria Pavlovna's burial chapel from 1860 to 1862, part of the Classic Weimar UNESCO World Heritage Site	50 ° 58 ′ 21 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 32 ″ E50.9725 11.325555555556

Districts

Church name	Location	Conf.	Remarks	Coordinates
St. Mary's Church	Ehringsdorf	possibly	The Marienkirche was first mentioned in 1365, a chapel as early as 1330. The ground floor of the tower dates from the 12th century, in 1255 a Romanesque choir tower was built, the choir in the 14th century and the nave in the 16th century. Over the next few centuries, the church was restored several times and its interior decorated.	50 ° 57 '54.3 " N , 11 ° 20' 43.7" E50.9650828 11.34545982
Village church	Gaberndorf	possibly	The church was first mentioned in 1333.	50 ° 59 ′ 47.6 " N , 11 ° 16 ′ 40.1" E50.99656629 11.27781853
Gelmeroda village church	Gelmeroda	possibly	The church was built between 900 and 1100. From 1906, it served the painter Lyonel Feininger as a template for numerous sketches, paintings, watercolors and woodcuts in the style of Cubism. Since 1994 it has been one of 13 motorway churches. In the bell tower, a bronze bell cast by Carl Friedrich Ulrich in Apolda in 1864 is combined with the one cast by the Karlsruher Glocken- und Kunstgießerei GmbH & Co. KG (today: Rudolf Perner bell foundry in Passau) on the Weimar market square on September 5, 1999 , and by Horst Yearling designed bronze bell.	50 ° 57 ′ 0.7 ″ N , 11 ° 18 ′ 1 ″ E50.95019822 11.30028337
Village church	Laying field	possibly		50 ° 56'0 " N , 11 ° 17'51.6" E50.93332102 11.29765883
Village church	Niedergrunstedt	possibly	The church has been documented in writing since 1322, when Pope John XXII. made the Mauritius church a destination for pilgrimages through a letter of indulgence . The first evidence of a pastor comes from the year 1363. The church and parts of the village were destroyed in the Saxon fratricidal war in 1447 and rebuilt by 1450. In 1726–29 the church was built in the form that it largely still has today. A long house with a mansard roof was added to the late Gothic tower, the galleries and the wooden barrel vault were painted with biblical scenes by the Weimar court painter Johann Ernst Rentzsch.	50 ° 57 '25.1 " N , 11 ° 16'57.4" E50.95697375 11.28260896
St. Peter and Paul	Oberweimar	possibly	The parish church has a lower part of the tower that dates back to the pre-monastic period as an original parish. The church was consecrated in 1281 as the monastery church of St. Peter and in 1291 as St. Peter and Paul. In 1362 a new church could be completed, from 1516 to 1518 the tower was built with half-timbering. The water of the paper stream, which was previously used for baptism purposes, runs under the church.	50 ° 57 '54.3 " N , 11 ° 20' 42.8" E50.96507098 11.34520903
Village church	Possendorf	possibly	The oldest parts of the church date from 1281. Recently, wall paintings from the Renaissance were uncovered. The church was also a Feininger motif.	50 ° 56 '26.2 " N , 11 ° 18' 46.9" E50.940603 11.313015
St. Stephen Church	Schondorf	possibly	The foundation stone was laid for the church in 1964, followed by its inauguration in 1966.	51 ° 0 ′ 52 " N , 11 ° 20 ′ 33" E51.014444444444 11.3425
St. Boniface Church	Schondorf	cath.	The Catholic Church of St. Boniface was consecrated in 1957. The construction time was two years. Carmelites from the Holy Blood Carmel settled on the site in 1995 with the establishment of the St. Theresa Convent in Dachau. This was the first monastery to be founded in the new federal states after 1990.	51 ° 0 ′ 47.6 " N , 11 ° 20 ′ 26.8" E51.013224789167 11.340765953056
Village church	Süßenborn	possibly	The village church dates from the 12th century. The reconstruction and design of the interior in 1820/21 was carried out by Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray (1775–1845), a master builder and architect of classicism .	50 ° 59 '6.5 " N , 11 ° 23' 32.6" E50.98513987 11.39239982
St. Ursula Church	Taubach	possibly	The first reference to a church building in Taubach can be found in 1462, a newly installed organ was checked by the composer Johann Sebastian Bach in 1710 . The church of St. Ursula was given its present appearance in 1855 by the Weimar builder Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray . One of their pastors was the Thuringian dialect poet August Ludwig .	50 ° 57 '2.6 " N , 11 ° 22' 53" E50.95072881 11.38140276
St. Christopher	Tiefurt	possibly	Oldest traces from the 13th century. After 1700 interior construction of the church as a copy of the Weimar Castle - with the sky castle , confessional hall and pyramid altar as well as the apostle gallery in the galleries by Jacques Callot .	50 ° 59 ′ 0.1 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 38 ″ E50.983373655556 11.3272207975
Village church	Tröbsdorf	possibly	The church, which has been documented since 1251, was rebuilt in the 16th and 18th centuries. The pulpit, organ and a lecture cross from the 18th century are all worth seeing.	50 ° 58 '59.7 " N , 11 ° 16'40" E50.98324364 11.2777783