St Arbogast Church in Surbourg takes its name from and pays homage to the first bishop of Strasbourg, Saint Arbogast. The dates originally from the 11th century and is part of the Route Romane d'Alsace, along with the Abbey Church of Saints-Pierre-et-Paul in Wissembourg and the Church of Saint-Ulrich in Altenstadt.
The building rises on a basilical plan with three ceilinged naves ending in a transept and vaulted apses in cul-de-four. Inside, the large arcades rest on alternating supports: columns with cubic capitals and masonry pillars with simple transoms. Note the quality of the apparatus in small rubble alternating red and gray sandstone (outside the nave and apse of the north apsidiole) as well as the decorative size of the facings (inside pillars of the nave).
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Visby Cathedral (also known as St. Mary’s Church) is the only survived medieval church in Visby. It was originally built for German merchants and inaugurated in 1225. Around the year 1350 the church was enlarged and converted into a basilica. The two-storey magazine was also added then above the nave as a warehouse for merchants.
Following the Reformation, the church was transformed into a parish church for the town of Visby. All other churches were abandoned. Shortly after the Reformation, in 1572, Gotland was made into its own Diocese, and the church designated its cathedral.
There is not much left of the original interior. The font is made of local red marble in the 13th century. The pulpit was made in Lübeck in 1684. There are 400 graves under the church floor.