One day, two churches in Munich, four blocks and four hours apart, separated by a large Bavarian meal—and two radically different views of how a church should look.
Munich’s Catholic cathedral, the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) gives an immediate sense of height, quiet and austerity with its barely-ornamented columns and restrained ceiling treatments.
The contrast at the Heiliggeistkirche (Holy Spirit Church) couldn’t be more marked, with its highly-decorated Rococo columns and ceiling art, the work of the early eighteenth-century Asam brothers, masters of German Rococo.
Both churches were heavily damaged during the Second World War and meticulously restored from existing plans and illustrations.
