As mentioned earlier, Bavaria is actually a predominantly Catholic country, so of course one of my major highlights of this trip is to see the many beautiful churches around!
Smack in the centre of town, right next to Marienplatz, is Peterskirche, or Church of St Peter. It is the oldest church in town, built in diff flavours of gothic, romanesque and renaissance style. This was also the first church we entered in Munich, and I attended mass here as well, but it was all in german haha. The churchgoers here are more reverent I feel, and the mass is more solemn and reverent as well. Like they still use certain aspects of the traditional latin rites, such as the altar facing the front, going up to and kneeling at the pews in front to receive communion etc.
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During the war, half the building was destroyed.
It even has a corpse of one of their matyred saint, St. Munditia (patron saint for single women) for public view!
It also has a 92 metre spire, which we can climb to see the majestic view from the top! What a tiring climb, but well worth the effort!
apparently you can see the outline of the alps even
From the top you can actually look across Marienplatz to Frauenkirche (Dom zu unserer Lieben Frau - Cathedral of Our Lady), serving as the cathedral for the Archdiocese of Munich.
Another really pretty church we went to was the pilgrimage church of Wies.
Located in the foothills of the Alps, story has it that in 1738 tears were seen on a dilapidated wooden figure of the Scourged Saviour. This miracle resulted in a pilgrimage rush to see the sculpture. In 1740 a small chapel was built to house the statue, but it was soon realized that the building would be too small for the number of pilgrims it attracted, and thus Steingaden Abbey decided to commission a separate shrine.
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Designed with really nice roccoco elements, the Wieskirche was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983.
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