Amanduskirche

Amanduskirche stands in Bad Urach, in Baden-Württemberg’s Reutlingen district, as an Evangelical late Gothic collegiate church. Its setting carries evidence of Christian buildings since the late eleventh century.

Around 1100, a church already stood near Urach’s water castle, followed by three predecessor buildings. Renovations in the 1990s revealed their foundations. Count Eberhard V commissioned the present building in the late fifteenth century, with the choir completed in 1477. Peter von Koblenz continued construction after Hans Koch died in 1481. Construction ended around 1500, and the church hosted the Uracher Bildergespräch during the Reformation in 1537.

Black-patinated limestone tuff, quarried limestone, and sandstone shape the building’s exterior and interior details. Rich stone and wood sculpture fills the space, including wall statues, a carved pulpit, and a baptismal font made by Christoph von Urach in 1518. The choir stalls recall the Brothers of the Common Life. A late Gothic prayer chair belonged to Count Eberhard V.