Augustinian Church (Munich)

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Augustinian Church from the southeast
Augustinian monastery and church around 1700
Augustinian Church from the west

The Gothic monastery church of St. John the Baptist and John the Evangelist of the Augustinian Hermits in Munich was built on Neuhauser Strasse in the 13th century and expanded in the 14th and 15th centuries. Beer was brewed in the monastery at the latest since 1328, from which Augustiner-Bräu emerged.

In 1503 Johann von Staupitz , confessor, teacher and sponsor of Martin Luther , was elected prior of the Munich Augustinian hermits. There is no evidence that the Augustinian hermit Luther stopped by his Munich monks on his trip to Rome in 1510/11, but it is very likely because of the good relationships between his patron from Staupitz and Munich.

The Gothic brick basilica was the first church in Munich to be redesigned in Baroque style from 1618 to 1621 by Veit Schmidt, presumably according to plans by Hans Krumpper . For the longest of its existence, the church was part of the Augustinian monastery, which is now the service building of the Munich police headquarters .

In 1803 the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization and the convent buildings were profaned; the church itself was initially used as a toll hall. The brewery was privatized and moved from the monastery building to Neuhauser Straße in 1817 as the Augustiner brewery . In 1885 it finally moved to its headquarters that still exist today.

1911 in the former nave by Theodor Fischer called the White Hall built. In 1914/15 Fischer set up an initially single-flight, then double-flight staircase in the former choir, which connects the ground floor and mezzanine floor and thus made it possible to convert the south aisle into business premises.

In World War II heavily damaged, the Augustinian church was from 1962 to 1964 by Erwin Schleich for the German Hunting and Fishing Museum rebuilt.

The monumental oil painting of the crucifixion of Jesus (9 m × 5.5 m) by the Venetian Jacopo Tintoretto , created in 1585 for the Augustinian Church, is now in the Haug Collegiate Monastery in Würzburg .

Personalities

  • Theodor Grünberger (1756–1820), composer, Augustinian monk and priest; joined the order of Augustinian hermits in the Augustinian monastery in Munich in 1777 and lived in this convent for a few years.

literature

  • Heinrich Habel, Johannes Hallinger, Timm Weski: State capital Munich - center (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87490-586-2 , p. 665-668 .

Web links

Commons : Augustinerkirche  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 18.3 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 15.9"  E