(Church of the Holy Spirit; ) is a

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, southern

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, originally belonging to the Hospice of the Holy Ghost (14th century).

History

It was remodelled in 1724–30 by (vaults, renovation of pillars); in the interior are

Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...

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es and stucco ornament by the Asam brothers. After the demolition of the hospice buildings in 1885, Franz Lšwel added three bays at the west end of the church and gave it a Neo-Baroque facade. The church suffered severe damage during

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and its interior furnishings were largely destroyed; extensive rebuilding and restoration was carried out after the war. The interior of the church was renovated in 1991.

Description

Of the original Gothic church, only the choir buttresses and the north wall of the

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

remain. The tower (1730) has a lantern dome of characteristic Munich type. The Neo-Baroque facade shows the use of elements borrowed from Viscardi's Trinity Church. The interior is aisled, with an

ambulatory The ambulatory ( la, ambulatorium, ‘walking place’) is the covered passage around a cloister or the processional way around the east end of a cathedral or large church and behind the high altar. The first ambulatory was in France in the 11th ...

round the choir. The nave is barrel-vaulted, with small vaults over the windows. The aisles have

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ing. Among several items of art-historical interest in the church are: in the portico, to left and right of the main entrance, parts of a bronze memorial made in 1608 by

Hans Krumpper Hans Krumpper (c.1570 – between 7 and 14 May 1634) was a German sculptor, plasterer, architect, and intendant of the arts who served the Bavarian dukes William V, Duke of Bavaria, William V and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian I. ...

for

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; in the

chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. Ove ...

, the high altar by Nikolaus Stuber (1730), with an

altarpiece An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...

by Ulrich Loth depicting ''The Effusion of the Holy Ghost'' (1661) and two flanking figures of angels by Johann Georg Greiff (1729); in the right aisle, a series of

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s (1725) by

Peter Jacob Horemans Peter Jacob Horemans or Peter Jakob Horemans (25 October 1700 – 3 August 1776) was a Flemish painter of genre scenes, portraits, conversation pieces, still lives and city views. After training in Antwerp he was active in Germany where he became ...

illustrating the ''Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit''; in the Kreuzkapelle, a late Gothic

crucifix A crucifix (from Latin ''cruci fixus'' meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the ''corpus'' (Lati ...

(1510); and, midway along the left aisle, an altar with an allegedly miraculous image of the ''Hammerthaler Madonna'' (15th century).

References

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Photo spread of Heiliggeist Church / Church of the Holy Ghost
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