Rottenburg Cathedral, or Dom St. Martin, stands in Rottenburg am Neckar and is the seat of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. It is dedicated to Martin of Tours. The site began as a chapel built in 1280, and it was also the parish church of the village of Sülchen. The tower dates from 1486, and the cathedral has served the city since 1821.
A fire in 1644 led to a fundamental reconstruction, completed on September 8, 1655. That work gave the building a Baroque character. The pillars were strengthened, the vault was repaired and the asymmetric plan was kept.
The cathedral has 11 bells plus a sacristy bell. The heaviest, the Martinusglocke, was cast in 2008 in Karlsruhe and weighs 4,800 kilograms. The oldest listed bell, the Ziehglöckle, dates from 1627.
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