St. Willibrord
St. Willibrord stands in a green strip on Blumenstraße, opposite Munich’s main fire station. Its unplastered brick walls, rectangular nave, and steep gabled roof recall English village churches. A square southern tower rises 25 metres beneath a tented roof.
Built in 1911 for English-speaking Anglicans, the church later served Munich’s Old Catholic community. That community, established in 1871, purchased the building in 1932. An air raid heavily damaged the church in 1944, and restoration followed in 1949. The work replaced the wooden barrel vault with a flat ceiling and rededicated the church to St. Willibrord. Renovation in 2010 brought new windows and a redesigned altar space.
Inside, pilasters and a horizontal cornice divide the walls beneath small pointed-arch windows. The presbytery has a cross-vaulted ceiling, while the main hall carries a wooden gabled ceiling. Below, the Döllingersaal forms part of the community centre, and the Peace Bell was cast in 1919. Its manually rung voice gives the church one particularly tangible detail.
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