Herz-Jesu-Kirche

In Herz-Jesu-Kirche’s place, a Catholic church complex once rose through three major lives—beginning with a first church consecrated in 1890. That original building, designed by Johann Marggraff, began as a dedication to the Assumption of Mary, before Archbishop Michael von Faulhaber redirected it to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1936. The second life ended in catastrophe: on 25 and 26 November 1994, a fire completely destroyed the church. A new design followed. Allmann Sattler Wappner won a competition after the archdiocese received 158 submissions, and reconstruction ran from 1997 to 2000 at a cost of €16 million. On 26 November 2000, Cardinal Friedrich Wetter consecrated the third church as Archbishop of Munich and Freising. …

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