St. Emmeram, church building in Geisenfeld, Bavaria, Germany

St. Emmeram is a Romanesque pillar basilica with a double-tower west facade and a Gothic five-eighth choir. The lower north tower, the Stifterturm, has a pyramid roof and blind fields framed by arched friezes; the south tower was raised in the 18th century and carries a clock and a curved hood with lantern. The nave opens through round-arched arcades on pilasters with Ionic and Corinthian capitals.

St. Emmeram was built in 1030 when Count Eberhard II of Ebersberg and his wife Adelheidis founded the Benedictine nunnery at Geisenfeld, dedicated to the Assumption and St. Zeno. A Gothic choir followed in 1384, its net ribs replaced by pearl-string profiles in 1602. From 1728 Abbess Maria Cäcilia Weiß had the church remodelled in Baroque style, and Bishop Johann Theodor of Bavaria consecrated it on 15 April 1730. After secularisation in 1803 it became the parish church, taking over the dedication of the old St. Emmeram church demolished in 1873.

The church is dedicated to Emmeram of Regensburg, a saint also venerated in the Regensburg monastery of St. Emmeram. The ceiling fresco in the nave shows the founders Eberhard II and Adelheidis being crowned with laurel wreaths by the pope, with the Virgin and Child above and a master builder holding the monastery plan. A chronostichon in the dome fresco gives the year 1728, when Abbess Maria Cäcilia Weiß began the Baroque renovation.

The church stands in the old monastery complex; the west front with its two towers faces the visitor arriving from the town centre. The south tower, raised in the 18th century, carries a clock and a curved hood with lantern. The interior is entered from the west; the raised Gothic choir lies to the east.

The 1516 frescoes on the choir vault were whitewashed for centuries and only uncovered during the 1971 renovation; they show the Church Fathers, the Evangelist symbols and angels holding the Instruments of the Passion. A 1602 stucco rib partly covers the apocalyptic Lamb resting on the book with the seven seals.