Town Church, Bad Hersfeld

The Protestant town church stands in the old town of Bad Hersfeld. Its distinctive steeple is the town's landmark.

The town church is a Gothic three-nave, high-vaulted hall church. The hall has four bays with flared, eight-sided pillars. The two-bay choir ends with a polygonal apse with 5/8 closure.

The history of the town church begins with the construction of the Romanesque market basilica around the year 1060. This building was then rebuilt and expanded over the next 420 years into the Gothic church building as it still stands today. The exterior has remained almost unchanged since then. The interior was significantly altered by Calvinist iconoclasts and by at least two major fires.