Saalfeld - St John's Church

Near the Town Hall of Saalfeld and the Hofapotheke is St John's Church (begun about 1380), one of the finest hall-churches in Thuringia. It has a richly furnished interior, with a Late Gothic Holy Sepulchre, a life-size figure of John the Baptist by H. Gottwalt (a pupil of Tilman Riemenschneider) and the middle panel of a triptych of 1480. On the outside are sandstone figures and reliefs which show the influence of the Parler school.