Fridolinsmünster Bad Säckingen

The origins of the Minster date back to the Carolingian era, although precise details of the first church are unknown. The oldest preserved part of the building is the crypt, belonging to a new three-aisled church built in the 11th century. In the 12th century, this basilical layout was maintained, but the choir area was altered, and a twin-towered westwork was added. After a devastating fire between 1343 and 1360, a complete new building in Gothic style was erected and consecrated in 1360. Further fires in the 17th and 18th centuries led to extensive Baroque transformations. Following a fire caused by French troops, the nave was rebuilt between 1698 and 1701 by Michael Widemann, with vaulting, the addition of octagonal chapels, and the Baroque adaptation of Gothic windows. Stucco artists from Wessobrunn and the painter Francesco Antonio Giorgioli designed the ceiling area. Between 1725 and 1727, the towers were heightened, and the facade was widened. Johann Caspar Bagnato created the monumental frame of the main portal in 1740. After another fire in 1751, a second Baroque renovation of the nave was carried out by Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Younger and the painters Franz Joseph Spiegler and Johann Anton Morath, completed in 1753. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, further facade changes occurred, some of which were later reversed. The last renovation of the church building took place in the 1980s.

The Fridolinsmünster is centrally located in the old town of Bad Säckingen, a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It stands on the former Rhine island, whose northern arm was filled in 1830.

Today, the Fridolinsmünster serves as the main church of the Roman Catholic parish of Bad Säckingen-Murg. The remains of Saint Fridolin are preserved in a richly decorated silver shrine in the publicly accessible Fridolin Chapel. The procession on the Sunday after March 6, commemorating the saint's day, enjoys regional renown. The Baroque-transformed twin-towered facade with its onion domes characterizes the appearance. Between the towers, above the entrance, the remains of a Romanesque oratory are preserved. The group of figures above the main portal depicts Saint Fridolin raising Urso from the grave.

• Haus Hallwillerhof (manor house, approx. 155 m away)
• Schloss Schönau (castle, approx. 226 m away)
• Burgruine Wieladingen (castle ruin, approx. 5332 m away)
• Schloss Schwörstadt (castle, approx. 6289 m away)