St. Blasius, Parish church in Ehingen, Germany

St. Blasius is a parish church in Ehingen situated on a plateau above the Schmiech river and surrounded by sturdy walls from a former cemetery. The building combines Romanesque foundations with later additions and features a typical layout with a choir and side aisles.

The oldest part is the ground floor of the tower, built of bossed ashlar at the start of the 13th century, when the tower stood free. A town fire in 1688 turned the three-aisled hall church into a wall-pillar church with side chapels. After the fire of 1749, the choir and sacristy were rebuilt from 1754 to a design by Johann Caspar Bagnato.

The church is dedicated to Saint Blaise and belongs to the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese. Its six bronze bells include three 18th-century bells that survived confiscation for armaments in both world wars; the largest is the Heilig-Geist-Glocke, the second the Dreifaltigkeitsglocke. Three small bells hang in the roof turret: the weather or Theodul bell, the baptism bell and the death bell.

The tower rises 64.5 metres; its lowest storey of bossed ashlar dates from the early 13th century, while the clock storey and the pointed eight-sided spire were added in 1958. Inside, the organ on the gallery has 50 stops across four manuals and pedal. Six bronze bells hang in the tower, three of them from the 18th century.

The ceiling painting of the Last Supper is by Giuseppe Appiani, not Joseph Ignaz Appiani. In the first chapel on the south side, the Ulm painter Wilhelm Geyer created frescoes in 1936, a work of classical modernism; the baptismal font from 1515 stands in this same chapel.