Bern Minster: Exterior view of lower half of main facade with Last Judgment portal

The sculptures of the Last Judgment were the only statues in the M\u00FCnster to survive the iconoclasm of the Protestant Reformation. The 47 large free-standing statues are replicas (the originals are in the Bern History Museum), and the 170 smaller figures are all original. They were all sculpted by Erhard K\u00FCng.\u000a\u000aThe minster, dedicated to St Vincent (originally the parish church, later made collegiate), was planned by Matth\u00E4us Ensinger from 1421 to replace a 12th century predecessor. It was largely completed by about 1540 by successive architects, including Vincenz Ensinger and Erhard K\u00FCng. The upper part of the tower was finished only in 1889-1893. It is an aisled, Late Gothic basilica with a richly sculpted portal of the Last Judgment by K\u00FCng, interior statuary (1517), important stained glass (1441-1460) and choir-stalls (1522), and is the outstanding Late Gothic building in Switzerland.