Image Copyright: Wolfgang Buttkus

Zwickau's most important sacral monument the cathedral looks back onto a long history. Founded around 1200 as Marien Church in Romanesque style the building was gradually replaced with gothic building elements.

Image Copyright: Wolfgang Buttkus

A walk-about around the splendid church building shows ca 70 limestone figures, which depict apostles at the south side, prophetes at the east and at the north side secular figures of the reformation history.

If you dare the arduous ascent of the 88 metre high tower you will be rewarded with a lovely view over Zwickau's city centre.
The valuable interior of St. Marien invites again and again a stroll through the inner cathedral. Worth a special mention are the main altar from the year 1479 by Michael Wohlgemut (teacher of Albrecht D�rer and Matthias Gr�newald), the pieta as main work by Zwickau's carver Peter Breuer (1502) as well as the pulpit and baptismal font by Paul Speck (1538).