The town church "St. Andreas" is a late Gothic hall church with three naves. It was built between 1463 and 1475 by rebuilding a church dating back to the 12th century. The church's current appearance is defined by a further major reconstruction from 1634/36 and the early Baroque interior. The family tree of Count Albert VII of Schwarzburg and the "Schönfeld Epitaph" are particularly worth seeing. In the choir, a tombstone commemorates Countess Katharina, who confronted Duke Alba in 1547 with her famous saying "Prince's blood for oxen's blood" and went down in history as "the heroic". The Osanna bell, cast in 1499, hangs in the upper belfry and its inscription is said to have inspired Friedrich Schiller to write one of his best-known poems, "Lied von der Glocke" (Song of the Bell), after climbing the tower in 1788. The Rudolstadt Church Building Association has made it its mission to promote the restoration of St. Andrew's Church as a place of worship and as a listed landmark in the townscape of Rudolstadt.