Church St. Stephan

General information:

The Münsterplatz (church square), a cemetery from the Middle Ages to the 17th century, and thereafter the drill square. St. Stephan´s church was built in Roman and Gothic styles between the 12th and 15th centuries. It was almost completely destroyed in 1945. Rebuilding took until 1956.

Worth seeing outside: Above the western entrance a tympanum with scenes from the life of St. Stephanus (14th century); crypt below the high choir (around 1300). Worth seeing inside, “Das Jüngste Gericht” (The Last Judgement) by Martin Schongauer (1488/91), choir screen (1500), high altar by the master H.L./Hans Loy (1523/1526), the reliquary shrine to the city patrons St. Gervasius and St. Prothasius (1496), the pulpit (1597), the Holy Grave (1517), gravestones and epitaphs (14th to 18th centuries).

For more information visit: www.st-stehpan-breisach.de (German)