St. Pius

St. Pius stands in Munich’s Berg am Laim district as a Roman Catholic parish church with early modernist architecture. Richard Berndl designed the building for the Neuramersdorf housing estate, completing it in 1932. Its massive tower spans the nave’s entire width, forming both the front porch and the main entrance. The three-aisled hall church measures 49 metres long and 25 metres wide, while its nave rises 15 metres.

Inside, the pulpit carries carvings of the Four Evangelists by Ludwig Magnus Hotter. Fourteen Stations of the Cross cover copper plates, while stained-glass windows from the 1960s bring colour through designs by Wilhelm Braun. The windows came from the Gustav van Treeck workshops, adding a later artistic layer to the interior.

Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber consecrated the building in 1932, before bombing in July 1944 destroyed the adjoining rectory. Post-war reconstruction restored the parsonage for occupancy by 1950, and WRK Orgelbau added the organ in 1979. A six-metre cross crowns the tower, which reaches 28 metres above the surrounding district.