Meissen Cathedral (Dom zu Meissen) is a Gothic hall church sitting directly beside the Albrechtsburg on the city's hilltop. Construction began in the thirteenth century and continued through the fifteenth, which accounts for the mixture of early Gothic nave and the more decorated late Gothic choir. The west towers, never completed in the medieval period, were finally finished in Gothic Revival style in the nineteenth century.
The interior contains a significant collection of medieval sculpture and decorative art. The choir stalls are carved with remarkable expressiveness; the tomb monuments of various Wettin princes line the walls. The funerary chapel in the south choir holds the tombs of Heinrich I and his wife Mathilde — among the oldest royal tombs in Germany still in their original location.
Entry to the cathedral is through a ticket office (small fee). The views from the cathedral terrace over Meissen's rooftops and the Elbe are among the best in the region — on clear days, Dresden is visible downstream.