4. Lutheran parish church St. Michael

St. Michael today is a Baroque church, but its history reaches deeper into the past. In 1448, it developed from a simple hall church to a Gothic church in the midst of a graveyard. After the fires in 1536 and 1540, the interior church was rearched and, during Recatholization in 1627, it was made Baroque. After its collapse in 1759, the tower was rebuilt in 1761. The pulpit was erected in 1787 and depicts the archangel Michael on the pulpit cover. The pews are decorated with rich rococo carvings, and numerous gravestones preserve the memory of important inhabitants of Weiden. The altarpiece “The Birth of Christ” was created by Sulzbach’s court painter Johann Karl.