Stadtpfarrkirche St. Blasius, Parish church in Fulda, Germany.
Stadtpfarrkirche St. Blasius is a parish church in Fulda with baroque architecture arranged in three naves separated by columns. The interior is framed by two western towers that serve different purposes within the structure.
A first parish church arose around 950, likely dedicated to Saint Maurice and surrounded by a cemetery. After a fire in 1103 a Romanesque church with nave, transept, square choir and semicircular apse was built, attested under Saint Blaise by 1221. A Gothic church followed between 1447 and 1470, leaving the northwest tower. In 1771 Prince-Bishop Heinrich von Bibra had the old church demolished; the late Baroque replacement by Jesuit Andreas Anderjoch was consecrated on 18 August 1785.
The two ceiling frescoes by Johannes Andreas Herrlein show the Sermon on the Mount, with a Latin inscription referring to the Lord's Prayer, and Christ driving the merchants from the temple. Eight apostles are painted above the arcades of the nave, four more in the choir, where King David with a harp appears on the ceiling.
The main portal faces west between the two 53.60-metre towers, marked by the Fulda city coat of arms above the wooden door. The south tower's former tower-keeper's flat is reached by 162 steps. The nave has a central aisle with a diamond-patterned stone floor and rows of dark wooden pews.
The south tower held the tower keeper's flat until its last occupant died in 1822; reaching it takes 162 steps. Both towers stand 53.60 m high, each with a square platform, walkway and two lanterns. The north tower, medieval in origin, carries the bells.
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