St. Maximi Church Merseburg

The imposing church is not far from the market.

Ev. City church of St. Maximi Merseburg

construction time
15th century, 16th century, 19th century,
probably 1432 to 1501, 1485 (choir), 1867 to 1876 and 1901 (restoration), 1867 to 1872 (tower)
Architectural style
Gothic, historicism
Builder/architect
Friedrich August Stüler (1867 to 1872)
Condition
The Ev. City church in Merseburg has been renovated.
Todays use
sacred
Access
The Ev. The town church in Merseburg cannot be visited.

Description
type
The Ev. The town church in Merseburg is a three-aisled, four-bay hall church.
Building structure
Natural stone building, buttresses, choir with 5/8 end, tower with corner buttresses, eyelash storey and closed stone top
inner space
Wall paintings, organ (Friedrich Gerhardt), horseshoe gallery, carved altar, carved figures, crucifix, pulpit

Tombstones
Bronze grave plate of Heinrich Bernhard and Elisabeth Naso (1720),
Epitaph painting (1584),
Epitaph Christian Forberger (1697)

Source: architektur-blicklicht.de/kirchen/merseburg-stadtkirche

For many centuries, St. Maximi has been the civic church on the town's market square. Its high tower from the 19th century shapes the cityscape of Merseburg.