On the brow of a hill stands Erfurt’s magnificent Gothic cathedral, built mostly during the 1300s and 1400s.There has been a religious building in this place since 742 when St Boniface founded a church.
The cathedral is unbelievably rich with Medieval art, starting with the 18-metre tracery windows in the high choir, which are almost all original and were fitted between 1370 and 1420. The oak stalls in the choir are also exceptional, carved in the 1360s, and with 89 seats in twin 17.5-metre rows.There’s a stucco retable depicting the Virgin and Child from 1160 and the astonishing Wolfram candelabra from dating to around the same time.The cathedral’s middle tower also holds the Maria Gloriosa, the world’s largest free-swinging Medieval bell, cast in 1497 and weighing 11.45 tons.