Basilika St. Bonifaz

St. Boniface’s Abbey, the Basilika St. Bonifaz, was founded in 1835 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria to help reanimate the country’s spiritual life after the secularisation of monasteries in the early 19th century. The church was formally dedicated in 1850, and its Roman Catholic Benedictine life is built into Munich’s city setting in an unusual way. To provide for the monks, Ludwig bought the former Andechs Abbey—secularised in 1803—together with its supporting farmlands, so Andechs now functions as a priory of St. Bonifaz. This building’s story includes a rupture: it was destroyed during World War II and only partly restored, with the surviving south half and its arcade forecourt rebuilt after 1945. …

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