All Saints' Church

The All Saints Church is a small Roman Catholic church from the 12th/14th century. The Gothic hall church stands at the junction of All Saints Street and Market Street in the center of Erfurt. It has an irregular floor plan and the tallest church tower in the old town of Erfurt, measuring 53 meters. Since 2007, it has been the first Roman Catholic church in Central Germany to have a columbarium.

In 1117, the All Saints Church was founded by the presbyter Erkenbert and the archbishop’s vicar Adalbert as an Augustinian canonry with a monastery and hospital. In 1125, the Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I of Saarbrücken first confirmed the foundation in writing through a document. The church was presumably consecrated in the same year. In 1222, a fire raged in the old town, which mostly destroyed the church and the monastery. The associated hospital was last mentioned in 1234 and was likely relocated to or abolished at the Regler Church soon after. Later, on the site of the hospital, stood the House of the Angel Castle, which came into the possession of university professors from the 15th century. The church building, destroyed in the city fire, probably only had a rectangular nave and a west tower protruding to the south.

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