Damenstiftskirche St. Anna
Damenstiftskirche St. Anna stands in Munich as an eighteenth-century church commissioned by Elector Charles Albert, later Emperor Charles VII. Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer designed the building. Its cornerstone was laid in 1733, and consecration followed in 1735 for a women’s collegiate church. The Asam brothers shaped its interior.
World War Two destroyed everything except the outer walls. Restoration in 1980 rebuilt the interior from old photographs. The original colourful murals had disappeared by then. Their recreated black-and-white form now gives the church a distinctive visual character.
Since 1 September 2014, the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter has cared for the church. Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Metropolitan Archbishop of Munich and Freising, provides its ecclesiastical oversight. The strongest detail remains the contrast between reconstructed interiors and monochrome murals.
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