Heiligenstadt - St Martin's Church

Large stretches of the Heiligenstadt old town walls have been preserved. The oldest building in Heiligenstadt is the former monastic church of St Martin, around which the town grew up, an aisled Gothic basilica (1304-1487) with a bronze Gothic font. In the tympanum of the north doorway can be seen a figure of St Martin on horseback (c. 1350). Heinrich Heine was baptized in this church in 1825.