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the church was consecrated 5 Deutsches represented in the museum’s
seven years later. The royal Jagd- und collection include several great
architect, Giovanni Antonio names such as Rubens, Snyders
Viscardi, assisted by Enrico Fischerei museum and Antonio Pisanello.
Zucalli and Georg Ettenhofer, German Museum of Hunting
created a building that is one of and Fishing
the most beautiful examples Neuhauser Straße 2. Map 2 A4. 6 Asamkirche
of Italian Baroque in Munich. Tel (089) 22 05 22.  or  Asams’ Church
The church’s original features Marienplatz. v 18, 19, 20, 21, 27. Sendlinger Straße 32. Map 2 A5.
include the dome fresco by Open 9:30am–5pm Mon–Wed & Fri–  Sendlinger Tor. v 16, 17, 18, 27.
Cosmas Damian Asam, The Sun, 9:30am–9pm Thu. & @ 52, 152. Open 8am–7:30pm daily.
Adoration of the Trinity. 5 5pm Tue, Thu, Fri; 10am Sun.
Immediately adjacent to St 8 noon Sat (May–Sep).
Michael’s Church is the
4 Frauenkirche Augustinerkloster, the former Officially known as St Johann-
Augustinian church, which now Nepomuk, this gem of
Frauenplatz 1. Map 2 B4. Tel (089) 290
08 20  or  Karlsplatz & Marien- houses the Museum of Hunting Rococo architecture stands in
platz. v 19. Church: Open and Fishing. The original building Sendlingerstraße and is part
7:30am–8pm daily (until 8:30pm in dates from around 1300 (the of a complex built by the
summer). Tower: Closed for first Augustinian monks arrived Asam brothers in the mid-
restoration and rebuilding. here in 1294). It was rebuilt in 18th century. In 1729–30, the
the mid-15th century and sculptor and stuccoist Egid
The site of the Frauenkirche then remodelled in the Quirin Asam acquired two
was originally occupied Baroque style in properties that he intended
by a Marian chapel, 1620–21. The church to convert into a family home.
built in the 13th was deconsecrated He subsequently acquired a
century. Some two in 1803. plot adjacent to these properties,
hundred years later, Since 1966, the where he wished to build a
Prince Sigismund building’s ornate church devoted to the newly
ordered a new, Rococo interior canonized St Nepomuk, a
much bigger church has housed a very Bohemian monk who had
to be built on the site. interesting museum, drowned in the Vltava river
Its architects were Jörg with a collection of in Prague. Above the entrance
von Halspach and Carving on main weapons dating from to the church is a statue of
Lukas Rottaler. The Frauenkirche portal the Renaissance, the saint.
Frauenkirche was Baroque and Rococo At the same time, Cosmas
completed in 1488, though the periods, as well as hunting Damian, the brother of Egid
distinctive copper onion-domes trophies and related paintings, Quirin Asam, bought a plot on
were not added to its towers prints and dioramas. Artists which he built the presbytery.
until 1525. The church is one of The church building
southern Germany’s biggest adjoins the residential
Gothic structures, which can house of Egid Quirin.
accommodate a congregation The two buildings
of about 2,000. were joined by a
A triple-nave hall with no corridor and from
transept features rows of side one of his bedroom
chapels, a gallery surrounding windows the
the choir and a monumental artist could see
western tower. The whole huge the main altar.
structure measures over 100 m In this small but
(330 ft) in length and almost unique church,
40 m (130 ft) wide. the Asam brothers
The church treasures that achieved a rare and
escaped destruction during striking unity of
World War II include a Marian style. In the dimly
painting, dating from around lit interior, with its
1500, by Jan Polak; the altar of St dynamically shaped
Andrew in St Sebastian’s chapel, single nave, no
with statues by Meister von surface is left
Rabenden and paintings by Jan unembellished. The
Polak, dating from 1510; and the eye is drawn to the
monumental tomb of Emperor altar, which features
Ludwig IV of Bavaria, the work of a sculpted group
Hans Krumpper (1619–22). Pulpit in the Rococo-style Asamkirche of the Holy Trinity.

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