Dom St Blasii
- Address
- Domplatz 5
- Website
- Phone
- 0531 243 350
- Price
- crypt admission €1
- Hours
- 10am-5pm
Lonely Planet review for Dom St Blasii
Heinrich's tomb is in the crypt of Dom St Blasii, where he lies alongside his wife Mathilde. In a macabre postscript to the duke's life, the Nazis decided to co-opt his image and in 1935 exhumed his tomb to conduct an 'archaeological investigation'. Even Hitler paid a visit. However, the corpse found inside had one leg shorter than the other (it's known that Heinrich suffered a terrible horse-riding accident late in life) and dark hair, and the master-race propagandists went very quiet on the subject after that. There were also questions over the body's gender and some doubt as to whether it's really Heinrich in the sarcophagus.






