St. Wolfgang

St. Wolfgang stands in Germany as a bold expressionist church, its façade striped in white limestone and beige brick. Dominikus Böhm, one of the twentieth century's leading church architects, drew up design after design before completing it in 1939. The ground plan forms a Greek cross: four arms of equal length meet in a central square. A pyramidal spire rises above that centre, crowned with a golden weathercock.

Each of the four arms ends in an immense rose window, pierced by more than a hundred openings. Coloured glass in the western one throws a lively play of light into the room. Inside, every line carries your gaze straight to the altar. A bronze figure of the penitent Peter by Gottfried Böhm stands in a niche. Wheelchair users get around the church without steps.

During the Second World War, a bombing raid left only the outer walls standing. The rebuilding mixed determination with invention: glass fragments from Munich's railway station went into the rose windows. Donations and barter from the community paid for the bronze bells cast just after the war.