Last Judgment Tympanum of the North Portal, St. Elisabeth Cathedral

The relief is divided into two horizontal registers carved from stone. In the upper register, a central Christ figure sits enthroned, flanked by angels holding the Cross and other symbols of the Passion; groups of figures, likely the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist, are positioned in prayer on either side. The lower register features a dense composition of figures emerging from tombs, with skeletal remains and human bodies interacting with demons who lead the damned toward the gaping mouth of a beast on the right, representing the Hellmouth, while saved souls are shepherded toward the left.

This tympanum serves as a traditional iconographic program for a Gothic cathedral portal, reinforcing the theological necessity of individual judgment and the binary outcome of the afterlife central to Medieval Latin Christianity. It reflects the influence of the New Testament Book of Revelation and the pervasive 'Ars moriendi' (Art of Dying) literature common in late medieval Central Europe.