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St Martin's Church, Erfurt
St Martin's Church (german: St. Martini) in the west of the historical centre of the city of Erfurt in Thuringia, Germany, is a Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church (building), church building. Today, it is a subsidiary church of the Catholic parish of St Lawrence's Church, Erfurt, St Lawrence's. History In 1265, St Martin's Church was first mentioned in a document as a parish church, although it is suspected that there already existed a church on the present site in the eleventh century. Franciscans, Franciscan friars, who maintained a hospital in the ''Brühl'' quarter of Erfurt in the 13th century, presumably used St Martin's as a hospital church. However, there is no evidence to support this assumption. From 1311 (or 1303), St Martin's had been not only a parish church for more than 500 years, but also served as a nunnery church for the Cistercians, Cistercian convent named ''Mariengarten'' ("Mary's Garden") adjoining the church. From the dissolution o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits in the middle of an almost straight line of cities consisting of the six largest Thuringian cities forming the central metropolitan corridor of the state, the "Thuringian City Chain" ('' Thüringer Städtekette'') with more than 500,000 inhabitants, stretching from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena, to Gera in the east. Erfurt and the city of Göttingen in southern Lower Saxony are the two cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants closest to the geographic center of Germany. Erfurt is located south-west of Leipzig, north-east of Frankfurt, south-west of Berlin and north of Munich. Erfurt's old town is one of the best preserved medieval city centres in Germany. Tourist attractions include the Merchants' Bridge (''K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
