Asamkirche

Asamkirche stands on Sendlinger Straße, its narrow two-storey façade tucked tightly between ordinary terraced houses. From the street, the compact chapel almost disappears. Behind that restrained frontage, a dense Baroque interior rises through three sharply separated vertical levels. The lower nave remains deliberately dim and shadowed.

Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin Asam built the church between 1733 and 1746 as a private chapel beside their home. The local residents later pressed for public access. White and blue mark the middle tier, once reserved for the emperor, while the bright upper zone represents God and eternity. The ceiling frescoes carry the eye upward. Confessionals preserve the church’s original purpose, and regular masses continue within the intimate space.

The Asamhaus stands directly beside the chapel, where the brothers lived and Egid Quirin could look inside. War damaged the choir, which restoration work repaired in the 1970s and early 1980s. The compact building measures only twenty-two by eight metres, yet its interior turns limited space into a theatrical ascent from shadow towards light.