St. Maximilian

St. Maximilian is a Roman Catholic parish church in Augsburg with Franciscan origins and a layered architectural history. A Holy Sepulchre chapel once stood at Augsburg’s former Weinmarkt. The Fugger family gave the present site to Franciscans, who founded the monastery Zum heiligen Grab. Esaias Holl probably drew the plans for the church. Johann Rottenhammer created the surviving All Saints painting for the high altar. Baroque remodelling changed both the church and monastery. Secularisation later brought a salt warehouse to the church and barracks to the former monastery buildings. The church became a parish church for Jakobervorstadt.

Air raids on Augsburg destroyed most of St. Maximilian and the former monastery during the Second World War. Only the western gable wall and part of the monastery survived. Architect Dominikus Böhm led a simplified rebuilding that used much material from the earlier church. The rebuilding restored St. Maximilian as a parish church. Its western gable façade carries window axes, while an octagonal gable tower rises above the church. A small round building stands beside the entrance, and the nave carries a barrel vault. Franz Nagel painted the ceiling and altars, while Stephan Geiger created the sculpture. The smaller choir organ by Max Offner remains associated with services at St. Maximilian. The church belongs to a parish community with St. Georg and St. Simpert, and Bavaria lists it as a historical monument.