3D print Ulm Minster
A free, printable model of the church's tall open-work spire and long nave, set among the closely packed buildings and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Ulm Minster
Ulm Minster, known in German as Ulmer Münster, is a Gothic church in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, that belongs to the Evangelical Church in Germany. Its great size leads some people to call it Ulm Cathedral, but it is not a cathedral, since it has never been the seat of a bishop. With the completion of its towers in 1890, it ranked as the world's fourth-tallest structure. The steeple measures 161.53 m (530.0 ft). Most of its walls, among them the nave and choir façades, are visible brick, so the building is sometimes called a brick church.
The original parish church stood outside the city walls, and the citizens wanted a new, independent church inside them. Ulm's nearly 10,000 inhabitants decided to finance the construction themselves. Mayor Ludwig Krafft laid the foundation stone on June 30, 1377, and Heinrich Parler was handed the design. In a 1530/31 referendum the citizens converted to Protestantism during the Reformation, and the minster became a Lutheran church. Work stopped in 1543 with the steeple at about 100 m (330 ft) and resumed in 1844. The main steeple was finished about ten meters taller than the medieval plan, and the building was completed on May 31, 1890.
An air raid on December 17, 1944 wiped out almost all of the town to the west of the church, and some 80% of Ulm's medieval center was lost, but the church itself was barely damaged. A staircase of 768 steps leads to the top of the spire, and the tower contains 13 bells. A 500 kg bomb fell in the choir on March 1, 1945, but it did not explode.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 43 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 54 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 69 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Open lattice spire
- The tall spire is an open frame of thin ribs. Print friendly adapts these thin parts to your print scale; Full detail keeps every rib. Print slowly with good cooling so the tip stays sharp.
- Small pinnacles along the nave
- Slim pinnacles and buttresses line the long sides of the nave. A larger print and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep these small details readable.
- One piece with the ground
- Ulm Minster is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Ulm Minster takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
Ulm Minster is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there an Ulm Minster STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Ulm Minster grows with the print: about 43 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
